Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series, 2014-2015

We are pleased to announce next year's slate of speakers who will visit WMU during the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 semesters as part of the English Department's Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series. We are fortunate to have an especially exciting group of internationally recognized scholars representing a wide array of interests and expertise, some of whom will surely be familiar names to many of you:

Valerie Traub, the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, who will be next year's Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecturer;

Patrick Brantlinger, James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University;

David Gerstner, Professor of Cinema Studies at CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island; and

Bill Hart-Davidson, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, and associate dean of the graduate college at Michigan State.

Our own Brian Gogan will deliver the Spring Keynote Lecture.

Stay tuned for more details on dates, times, and topics!

Newberry Grad Seminars

Fall 2014 Ten-Week Graduate Seminars
Application deadline: May 15

How to Read "contraires choses": Encounters with the Roman de la Rose
Led by Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
http://www.newberry.org/09252014-daisy-delogu-how-read-contraires-choses-encounters-roman-de-la-rose
2 to 5 pm Thursdays, September 25 to December 4
Prerequisite: ability to read modern French; ability to read Old French helpful but not required.

Disability and Marginality in Medieval England and France
Led by Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago
http://www.newberry.org/09262014-edward-wheatley-disability-and-marginality-medieval-england-and-france
2 to 5 pm Fridays, September 26 to December 5
No language prerequisites

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Shakespeare's Jewish Women

Come to a talk/reading/q & a on Shakespeare's Jewish women at the Congregation of Moses, 2501 Stadium Drive, 7 p.m. Thursday the 24th (tonight). With Shakespeare birthday cake!

The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies presents:

Saturday, May 17, Noon
Milton Seminar
Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago
Edenic Freedoms
http://www.newberry.org/05172014-joshua-scodel

The paper will be precirculated electronically to registrants.

Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration in advance is required by 10 am Friday, May 16.

Please forward this message to others who may be interested.

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Faculty and graduate students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium may be eligible to apply for travel funding to attend this program (http://www.newberry.org/newberry-renaissance-consortium-grants).

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