The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Chicago Humanities Festival
present
Classics in Context:
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Saturday, September 11, 2004 from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall
Moderator: Mary Beth Rose is Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Cornell University Press, 1988); and co-editor (with Leah S. Marcus and Janel M. Mueller) of Elizabeth I: Collected Works (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Presenters:
Judith Kegan Gardiner is Professor of English and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books are Craftsmanship in Context: The Development of Ben Jonson's Poetry (Mouton, 1975); Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy (Indiana University Press, 1989); Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice (ed., University of Illinois Press, 1995); and Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory (ed., Columbia University Press, 2002).
Paula McQuade is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University. She is the author of Maternal Instructions: Early Modern Catechisms Written for Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Children (forthcoming from Ashgate Press). She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled “Casuistry and Tragedy: Practical Divinity and Domestic Drama in Early Modern England.”
Brian Sheerin is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His area of speciality is early Modern British Literature, especially Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
For additional information, please call the Institute for the Humanities at 312/996-6354
or the Chicago Humanities Festival at 312/661-1028.
Books for this Classics in Context program were generously donated by Penguin Books, a division of the Penguin Group.
