The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Chicago Humanities Festival
present
Classics in Context:
A Working Seminar:
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Saturday, September 23, 2000 at 9:30 a.m.
Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall
Judith Kegan Gardiner is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Renaissance texts, including Craftsmanship in Context: the Development of Ben Jonson's Poetry (1975) and essays on Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and Margaret Fell Fox. Her work on feminist theory includes the edited volume Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice(1995). Her edited volume Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theories: New Directions is forthcoming.
Jeffrey Masten is Associate Professor in the English Department at Northwestern University. He is the editor of Renaissance Drama, and his publications include Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Elli Abraham Shellist is a new doctoral candidate and father whose article "'In the Habit of a Jew: Religious Cross-dressing in Webster's The Devil's Law-Case" has been accepted for publication in a collection entitled Representations of Jews on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage.
For additional information, please call the Institute for the Humanities at 312/996-6354
or the Chicago Humanities Festival at 312/661-1028.
