The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Chicago Humanities Festival
present
Classics in Context:
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Saturday, September 10, 2005 from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall
9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00 Presentations and discussion
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Discussion
Moderator: Mary Beth Rose is Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Presenters:
Francesca Royster is an Associate Professor of English at DePaul University. Her areas of expertise include Shakespeare studies, critical race theory, women's studies and popular culture.
Suzanne Gossett is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. Her specialty is early modern English drama, including Shakespeare. She is one of the General Editors of the new series, Arden Early Modern Drama.
Anna Riehl is a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently working on a dissertation that explores verbal and visual representations of Queen Elizabeth I.
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 Viking Penguin Books, a division of the Penguin Group.
