The Renaissance Workshop meets alternate Mondays from 5-6:30 pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise noted.
FALL 2016
October 3 at 5:30-7 pm | Jo Nixon
Ph.D. Student, English, University of Chicago
“‘Which some think dead’: Uniting Flint and Flesh in Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans”
4:30-5:15 pm: Please join us before the workshop for a discussion with Jessica Smith and Annie Janusch from UChicagoGRAD on fellowships and other funding opportunities for graduate students interested in early modern studies. We ask that those planning to attend fill out this short survey.
Cosponsored by the Early Modern Workshop.
***Please note the unusual time***
October 17 | Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, English and Divinity, University of Chicago
“The Judgment of the Critics that Makes us Tremble: ‘Distributing Complicities’ in Recent Criticism of King Lear”
October 31 | Katrina Powers
Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
“Susanna, Venus, and the Renaissance Nude”
Cosponsored by the Western Mediterranean Cultures Workshop
November 14 | Leah Whittington
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, English, Harvard University
“Humanism, Philology, and Texts without Ends”
December 5 | Joshua Scodel
Helen A. Regenstein Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“‘Sweet Liberty’ and Literary Tradition in Milton’s ‘L’Allegro'”
***Please note the change in date***
WINTER 2017
January 9 | Drew Daniel
Associate Professor, English, Johns Hopkins University
“‘Joy of the Worm: Suicidal Slapstick in Antony and Cleopatra”
Cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies
January 23 | Timothy Harrison
Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
“John Donne and the Felt Time of the Body”
February 6 | Nicholas Bellinson
Ph.D. Student, Committee on Social Thought , University of Chicago
“Undivided Love: a motive in King Lear”
February 20 | Michal Zechariah
Ph.D. Student, English, University of Chicago
“Unhappiness and the Unknown in Paradise Lost”
March 6 | Sarah Kunjummen
Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“’Wrappe Myself in Dead Letters’: Textual Authority and Citational Practice in Early Seventeenth-Century Sermons”
SPRING 2017
Wednesday, March 29 | Stephanie Shirilan
Associate Professor, English, Syracuse University
“Air’s Murkiness in Macbeth”
***Please note the unusual day. The workshop will be held at our usual time and location.***
April 3 in Pick 319 | Brian Maxson
Associate Professor, History, Eastern Tennessee State University
“The Late Medieval Audience of Renaissance Humanism: Two Case Studies”
Cosponsored by the Early Modern Workshop.
***Please note the unusual location. The workshop will be held at our usual time.***
May 1 | Abigail Marcus
Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Chicago
TBA
May 15 | Rana Choi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“Gresham’s Law as a Significant Metaphor in Shakespeare”
June 5 in Wieboldt 207 | Sam Catlin
Ph.D. Student, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“‘Also it is written’: Milton’s Infinite Commentary”
***Please note the unusual location. The workshop will be held at our usual time.***