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With Robert S. Miola and Grace Ioppolo
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Join our Norton Critical Edition editors Robert S. Miola (Hamlet and Macbeth) and Grace Ioppolo (King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Measure for Measure) on William Shakespeare's birthday to discuss his impact on English Literature throughout the centuries and new ways to encourage students to engage with Shakespeare in the classroom!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professors Miola and Ioppolo.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
ROBERT S. MIOLA is Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair of English at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Reading, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence, Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca, and The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, as well as dozens of articles on sixteenth-century English literature. He is the editor of the newly published Third Norton Critical Edition of Macbeth and the Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet.
GRACE IOPPOLO is the founder and director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project and is Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, England. She is the author of Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood: Authorship, Authority, and the Playhouse (2006) and Revising Shakespeare (1991) and co-editor of Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (2007) and General Editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood (2015). She has edited the Norton Critical Editions of Shakespeare’s King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Measure for Measure and for Norton and has published widely on textual transmission, the history of the book and literary and historical manuscripts.
With Carla Kaplan
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Join editor Carla Kaplan (Northeastern University) for a discussion of why Nella Larsen's novels have endured as often taught and read works in the decades following the peak of the Harlem Renaissance! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Kaplan. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
CARLA KAPLAN is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (forthcoming). She is also editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States and Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams.
With Michael Patrick Gillespie
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Join Professor Michael Patrick Gillespie (Florida International University) on the anniversary of The Importance of Being Earnest's West End premiere for a discussion of Oscar Wilde's drama, prose, and why his varied works have endured in classrooms around the world!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Gillespie.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE is Professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author of Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity, Branding Oscar Wilde, The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism, Inverted Volumes Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library, Reading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaos, The Myth of an Irish Cinema, James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination, Reading William Kennedy, and Film Appreciation through Genres. His other edited works include the Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest, James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity, and Joyce through the Ages: A Non-Linear View.
With Kurt Beals
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Join translator and editor Kurt Beals for a discussion of why these two famous German novels have endured as often taught and read works in classrooms around the world!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Kurt Beals.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
KURT BEALS is visiting associate professor of German and Humanities Fellow in literary translation at the University of Richmond. He has translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Hermann Hesse, Reiner Stach, Regina Ullmann, and Anja Utler, among others. He lives in Virginia.
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