Praise for Special Issue of Comparative Drama

The staff of Comparative Drama is pleased to share a new review of our recent special issue, "Translation, Performance, and Reception of Greek Drama, 1900-1960: International Dialogues," guest edited by Amanda Wrigley. The Bryn Mawr Classical Review calls the issue:

"a veritable treasure trove to explore, to learn from and to enjoy. It fully lives up to Comparative Drama's claim to encourage 'studies that are international in spirit and interdisciplinary in scope.' It also confirms the universal and timeless appeal of Greek tragedy."

The full text of this review may be found at:

http://www.bmcreview.org/2012/10/20121057.html

Special Issue of Comparative Drama

The latest issue of Comparative Drama has been published on-line at Project MUSE. Print copies will be available soon.

Volume 46.3 is a special issue entitled Transcultural Poetics and the “Worlding” of Drama and was guest edited by Professor Ranjan Ghosh from The University of North Bengal, India.  This issue contains the following contributions:

Introduction: Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally
Ranjan Ghosh

Zen and the Art of Self-Negation in Samuel Beckett’s Not I
Kyle Gillette

Snapshots of a Shakespearean in China
Sidney Homan

American Students Performing the Foreignness of Human Culture in Foreign Drama
Les Essif

Authentic Protest, Authentic Shakespeare, Authentic Africans: Performing Othello in South Africa
Natasha Distiller

On the Tragedy of the Commoner Elektra, Orestes and Others in South Africa
Loren Kruger

Fugard, Kani, Ntshona’s The Island: Antigone as South African Drama
Robert Gordon

Hamlet the Difference Machine
Stephen Barker

Ania Loomba/Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecture/Nov. 1

The English Department Scholarly Speakers Series presents

the Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecture

Ania Loomba
University of Pennsylvania

"The Tempest and the Histories of Globalization"

Thursday, November 1, 2012
7PM
Brown 2028

A reception will follow


Prof. Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the university and is also faculty in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, Women's Studies, and Asian-American Studies. Her writings include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press, 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005; with Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Swedish and Indonesian editions) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has co-edited Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005), Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007). She is series editor (with David Johnson of the Open University, UK) of Postcolonial Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press). Her latest publication is a critical edition of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Norton, 2011) and a co-edited collection of essays Feminisms in South Asia: Contemporary Interventions is forthcoming from Duke University Press.


For more information, please contact Prof. Eve Salisbury: eve.salisbury@wmich.edu

Newberry Grad Student Conference CFP (10/15 deadline)

Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies
2013 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers

Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012
Conference dates: January 24-26, 2013

We invite abstracts for fifteen-minute papers from master’s or PhD students, on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, anthropology, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, political science, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.

Eligibility: Proposals are accepted only from students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium, who may be eligible to apply for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend.

Submissions are accepted online only: http://www.newberry.org/01242013-2013-multidisciplinary-graduate-student-conference.

Printable PDF flyer to download and distribute: http://www.newberry.org/sites/default/files/calendar-attachments/2013CFP.pdf

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Newberry Milton Seminar-Oct.27

The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies announces:

Friday, October 27, noon.
Milton Seminar
Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
"The Beginning of Now: John Milton in the Early Modern Social Network"
http://www.newberry.org/10272012-milton-seminar-blaine-greteman
Sponsored by DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Newberry’s Milton Seminar is directed by Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago; David A. Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University.

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This program is free and open to the public; registration in advance is required. Please forward this message to others who may be interested.

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