Medieval-Renaissance Seminar
The University of Pennsylvania English department's Medieval-Reniassance seminar fosters lively conversations about the literary, historical, and cultural materials of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, and the theoretical frameworks, critical perspectives, and methodologies we bring to bear upon those materials. Scholars – Penn graduate students and faculty, as well as visiting academics – share drafts of article-length works-in-progress, offering participants a chance to make significant scholarly contributions in a relaxed environment. Our meetings foster an atmosphere of shared intellectual vigor, with conversations ranging in form and tone from Q&As and brainstorm sessions, to rigorous, constructive critiques of the papers within their broader critical contexts.
During the 2011-2012 academic year, unless stated otherwise, all meetings will be at 5 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge (Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 330). Med-Ren meets approximately every other week.
Our listserv address is english-medren@groups.sas.upenn.edu. Those wishing to may subscribe here. You may contact one of this year's co-coordinators, Claire Bourne (bournec@sas.upenn.edu) or Tekla Bude (tekla@sas.upenn.edu) to be subscribed to the list or to request more information.
Schedule of Speakers & Events, 2011-2012
Papers will be made available via this link as the date of each seminar approaches.
Fall 2011
Thursday, September 22 (5 p.m.) – Amy Hollywood, Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Class of 1955 Room, Van Pelt Library {Sponsored by Medieval Studies at Penn.}
Wednesday, September 28 – Brian Cummings, Professor of English, University of Sussex, "Hamlet's Luck: The Theology of Chance."
Thursday, October 13 – Sarah Beckwith, Professor of English, Duke University, "'Art Thou My Boy?': Skepticism, Childhood, and Ceremonies of Initiation in The Winter's Tale."
Monday, October 24 (10:30 a.m.) – Julia Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, "Harrowing Hospitality in Macbeth."
Wednesday, November 2 – Kara Gaston, PhD Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania, "'Save oure tonges difference': Troilus and Criseyde and Italian Volgarizzamento"
Wednesday, November 16 – Chris Baswell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University and Anne Whitney Olin Professor of English, Barnard College, "Broken Bodies and the Somatic Nation in the Reign of Henry III."
Wednesday, November 30 – Tekla Bude, PhD Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania, "Piers Plowman and Mystical Song."
Spring 2012
Wednesday, February 8 – Lauren Shohet, Professor of English, Villanova University, "Timon of the Woods; Or, Reading Like a Beast."
Wednesday, February 22 – William Sherman, Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, "Early Modern Punctuation and Modern Editions: Shakespeare's Serial Colon."
Tuesday, March 13 – Phyllis Rackin Lecture – Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, "Representing Rape: Staging and Narrating Lucrece in Shakespeare and Heywood."
Wednesday, March 14 – Kellie Robertson, Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Love and Physics in the Age of Chaucer."
Wednesday, March 28 – Claire M. L. Bourne, PhD Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania, "'High Designe': Beaumont and Fletcher Illustrated."
Wednesday, April 11 – Jessica Rosenberg, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, "Provision and the pointing of couplets in Shakespeare's Sonnets and in Thomas Tusser's A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie."
Wednesday, April 25 – Lucia Martinez, PhD Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania, "'Certayne Confortable Songs': The Rhythms of Coverdale's Psalms."
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https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/english-medren