AUTUMN 2018

October 22 | Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
“Happy Hamlet”

November 5 | Katie Kadue
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago
“‘Mille Fleurs’: Gender and Cliché in Renaissance Lyric”

November 19 | Ben Jeffery 
PhD Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago
“This Fearful Country: the Shipwreck in The Tempest”

December 3 | Ross Lerner
Assistant Professor, English, Occidental College
“The Astonished Body in Paradise Lost”

Friday December 7, 3pm | Nicholas Bellinson
PhD Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago
“The Owl’s Merry Note: song and comic resolution in Love’s Labour’s Lost”

 

WINTER 2019

January 14 | Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
“Playing the Epicure: Lucretian Materialism, Pacifism, and Idealism in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”

January 28 | Micha Lazarus
Research Fellow, English, University of Cambridge
“Sophocles Reformed: Christian Tragedy in the Northern Renaissance”

February 11| Danielle Charette
PhD Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Petrarch’s Poetic Imperium: Augustus Caesar in Petrarch’s Literary Corpus”

February 25 | Sarah Kunjummen
PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“’Interinanimation’: Soul Transfer in Seventeenth-Century British Lyric”

March 11 | Owen Joyce-Coughlan
PhD Student, Divinity, University of Chicago
“Itineraries of Divine Love in Marsilio Ficino’s On Love and Giordano Bruno’s On the Heroic Frenzies”

Thursday March 14 | Maggie Kilgour
Molson Professor of English Language and Literature, McGill University
“Milton’s Macbeths, or, The Low Road to Shakespeare”

 

SPRING 2019

April 8 | Joshua Scodel
Helen A. Regenstein Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“’Care’ and Generic Innovation in Ben Jonson and John Milton”

April 15 | Joe Moshenska
Associate Professor, English, University of Oxford
“Iconoclasm as Child’s Play: Spenser’s Toys”

April 22 | Ryan Campagna
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
“Skin and the Early Modern Soul: The Case of Margaret Cavendish and Henry More”

May 6 | Rana Choi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
TBD

May 20 | Beatrice Bradley
PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“Residue in Tasso, Spenser, Shakespeare”

June 3 | Timothy Harrison
Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
“Fictions of Human Nature in Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Philosophy”