The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
and
The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
with the generous support of
New Century Bank
cordially invite you to
THE STANLEY FISH LECTURE
Stephen Greenblatt
University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
"Shakespeare and the Limits of Hatred"
Friday, April 13, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Room 605 Student Center East,
750 South Halsted University of Illinois at Chicago
Stephen J. Greenblatt received an AB in 1964 and a PhD in 1969 from Yale University, and an MPhil in 1966 from Cambridge University. Greenblatt is the founder of the "new historicism" school of literary criticism and a specialist in Shakespeare, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, the literature of travel and exploration, and literary theory. He is the author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, and Hamlet in Purgatory and is general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2005 edition).
Greenblatt serves on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous journals. He is the recipient of the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association of America, the British Council Prize in the Humanities, and the Mellon Distinguished Humanist Award. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as president of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA).
This lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact huminst@uic.edu or 312-996-6354.