The Renaissance Workshop meets alternate Mondays from 5 – 6:30 pm in Rosenwald 405, unless otherwise noted.
AUTUMN 2017
September 25 | Emily Vasiliauskas
Assistant Professor, English, Williams College
“Antony and Cleopatra and the Art of Dying”
Cosponsored with the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
Tuesday, October 3 | David Simon
Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
“Vicious Pranks: Comedy and Cruelty in Rabelais and Shakespeare”
Cosponsored with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop.
**Please note that Professor Simon’s workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 3 in the first floor seminar room of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (5733 S. University Avenue) from 5:00 – 6:30 pm.**
November 6 | Katie Bellamy Mitchell
PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“The Perverse Directionality of Path Making and the Innocent Labyrinth in Paradise Lost”
November 20 | Ji Gao
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages, University of Chicago
“Publier la Bible durant les guerres de religion: Roville et les libraires lyonnais”
(“Publishing the Bible during the wars of religion: Roville and Lyonnaise publishers”)
December 4 | Nicholas Bellinson
PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Desdemona’s ‘Song of Willow’”
WINTER 2018
January 8 | Katie Kadue
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago
“Tempering Milton: Domestic Georgic in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d“
January 22 | Ada Palmer
Assistant Professor, History, University of Chicago
“The Persecution of Lucretius’s Renaissance Readers Reexamined”
Cosponsored with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop.
February 5 | Timothy Harrison
Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
“Introduction to book MS, Impossible Experience: Natality and Consciousness in Early Modern England”
February 19 | Gordon Teskey
Professor, English, Harvard University
“The Bible and the Poetry of John Milton”
Friday, February 23, 3:00 – 4:30 PM | Beatrice Bradley
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
“Creative Juices: Sweat in Paradise Lost”
Cosponsored with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop.
**Please note the unusual time and day. There will be no pre-circulated paper.**
March 5 | Sarah Kunjummen
PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“Shared Bodies, Individual Worlds: Contemplation and Social Life in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World”
SPRING 2018
March 26 | Patrick Fitzgibbon
PhD Candidate, Music, University of Chicago
“Insect and Insurrection in Auditory Cultures of Early Modern England”
April 9 | Ryan Campagna
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
TBA
April 23| Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, English, University of Chicago
“‘Devout Humanism’ and Its Problems: George Herbert and François de Sales”
Cosponsored with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop.
May 7 | Michal Zechariah
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
“’Good Unknown’: Gratitude and Moral Agency in Paradise Lost”
May 21| Jane Mikkelson
PhD Candidate, SALC/NELC, University of Chicago
“A Style of Steadfast Imagining: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1721) and Early Modern Persian Lyric”
Thursday, May 31 in Classics 110 | Ayanna Thompson
Professor, English, George Washington University
“Encountering Othello Anew through the Deutsches Theater Berlin”
This event is sponsored by the English Department, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
June 4 | Rana Choi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
TBA