Archive of Past Events

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2011-2012

  • October 21,  2011: MFA Reading Series - Leia Wilson
  • October 20-21, 2011: Improbable Fictions - Staged reading of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • October 6, 2011: Pure Products Reading Series - The Lake Effect Reading
  • September 22, 2011: Improbable Fictions - Staged reading of Euripedes’ Hecuba
  • September 15, 2011: Pure Products Reading and Lecture Series - The Welcome Back of 2011 Reading

2010-2011

  • April 22, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Danny Letz and Sarah McClung
  • April 21, 2011: Improbable Fictions-  Staged reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • April 15, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Emily Conner and Breanne LeJeune
  • April 7, 2011: Bankhead Reading Series - Brenda Hillman and Claudia Keelan
  • March 25, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Melissa Hull and Danilo Thomas
  • March 10, 2011: Improbable Fictions - Staged reading of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost
  • March 5, 2011: Strode Digital Humanities Symposium - Christie Carson (Royal Holloway, University of London) - "Early Modern Theatre (EMLoT) Online: Exploring Multiple Histories" - Jennifer Boyle (Coastal Carolina University) - "Hacking the New Humanities: The Virtual Sovereign in Thomas Hobbes and Militant Video Games" - Richard Cunningham (Acadia University) - "INKE at 1: The First Year (and a half) of a Major Digital Humanities Initiative" - Patricia Fumerton (UC Santa Barbara) - "Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archive of Broadside Ballad Illustrations" - Kevin Kee (Brock University) - "Fiddling While Rome Burns: Why Digital Humanists Should Be More Like Nero"
  • March 4, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Megan Fink and Danilo Thomas
  • March 3, 2011: Bankhead Reading Series - Larry Sutin
  • February 25, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Eric Karin and Katie Jean Shinkle 
  • February 17, 2011: Bankhead Reading Series - Cecil Giscombe
  • February 11, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Dara Kelly Ewing and Jess Richardson
  • January 28: MFA Reading Series - Ashley Gorham and Devin Gribbons
  • January 21, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Rachel Adams and Pia Simone Garber
  • January 14, 2011: MFA Reading Series - Annie Agnone, Ellie Isenhart, Greg Houser, and Brandi Wells
  • December 3, 2010: MFA Reading Series - Matthew Mahaney and Betsey Seymour
  • November 17, 2010: Improbable Fictions - Staged reading of Shakespeare's King Lear
  • November 16, 2010: Strode Theory Lecture - Karis Shearer (Vanderbilt) - "Radical Pedagogy: Modernist Writers' Interventions in the Development of Canadian Literature"
  • November 9, 2010: Bankhead Reading Series - Ted Conover
  • November 8, 2010: Modernist Reading Group Lecture - Adam Parkes (U. Georgia) - "Bombs, Journalists, and Photographers: The Impressionism of Conrad's The Secret Agent"
  • November 5, 2010: Strode Theory Lecture - Laura Rosenthal (U. Maryland, College Park) - "All Roads Lead to Rhodes: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration"  
  • November 5, 2010: MFA Reading Series - Casey Fagan and Lisa Tallin
  • October 23, 2010: Strode Milton Seminar - Joe Wittreich (CUNY) - "The New Milton Criticism"
  • October 22, 2010: Strode Milton Seminar - Joe Wittreich (CUNY) - "Lost Paradise Regained: The Twin Halves of Milton's Epic Vision"
  • October 18, 2010: Strode Theory and Criticism Lecture - Nadine Hubbs (U. Michigan) - "Unfathomable Subjects: Rednecks, Queers, and Country"
  • October 14, 2010: Bankhead Reading Series - G. C. Waldrep and Sabrina Orah Mark
  • October 8, 2010: MFA Reading Series - James Maynard and Farren Stanley
  • October 7, 2010: Improbable Fictions - Staged reading of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
  • October 1, 2010: MFA Reading Series - David Androoz and Tom Cotsonas
  • September 9, 2010: Bankhead Reading Series - Kellie Wells and Dave Madden

2009-2010

  • April 15, 2010: Strode Theory and Criticism Lecture - Wayne Koestenbaum (CUNY Graduate Center) - "The Anatomy of Harpo Marx"
  • March 25, 2010: Improbable Fictions - Staged reading of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
  • March 9, 2010: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - Naomi Conn Liebler (Montclair State U.) - "The Wolf/Man's Lament: King Lear and Howling"
  • February 25, 2010: Strode Theory and Criticism Lecture - Jane Gallop (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) - "The Ethics of Close Reading"
  • January 30, 2010: Strode Local Readings Symposium - Angela Balla (UA-Huntsville) - "Neighborliness and Toleration in Herbert's The Temple" - Joseph Navitsky (U. Southern Miss) - "'Sportive Malice' and the Rhetoric of Humiliation in Shakespeare's Mid-career Drama" - Robert Sawyer (Eastern Tennesse State U.) - "Shakespeare and Marlowe: Rewriting the Rivalry" - Deneen Senasai (Mercer U.) - "A Speaking Likeness: Heteroglossic Silence in the Lives of Early Modern Women"- Alison Chapman (UAB) - "Reforming the Saints: the Holy Women of Milton's Comus and the Holy Women of Catholic Wales" - Anthony Welch (U. Tennesse-Knoxville) - "John Milton's Voice"
  • October 19, 2009: Strode Theory and Criticism Lecture - Maria Dibattista (Princeton) - "Joking Apart: The Sublime and Ridiculous in Women's Writing"
  • October 3, 2009: Strode Milton Seminar - Stella Revard (Southern Illinois U.) - "The Design of the 1645 Poems"
  • October 2, 2009: Strode Milton Seminar - Stella Revard (Southern Illinois U.) - "Milton and Classical Literature: Ovid, Homer, and Virgil"

2008-2009

  • April 16, 2009: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - Rick Rambuss (Emory; Visiting Strode Professor) - "Mardi Gras Shakespeare"
  • March 24, 2009: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University) - All is Not Glossed: Editing Shakespeare and the History of Sexuality"
  • November 21, 2008: Strode Theory and Criticism Lecture - Kathryn Stockton (U. Utah) - "Theorizing the Queer Child: Henry James, NAMBLA, and Venus in Furs"
  • October 28, 2008: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - Aaron Kunin (Pomona) - "Banish the World: A Project for Shakespearean Pastoral"
  • October 25, 2008: Strode Symposium "Shakespeare's Love Triangles" - Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt) - "Monogamy and Death" - Edward Geisweidt (U. Alabama) - "'I have not Placed all my Treasures in One Bottom': Triangulated Desire and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice" - Jonathan Goldberg (Emory) - "What do Women Want?" - Madhavi Menon (American U.) - "Coriolanus and I" - Daniel Juan Gil (Texas Christian U.) - "Geometries of the Flesh: Humoral Bonding and the Breakdown of Sovereignty" - Carla Freccero (UC, Santa Cruz) - "Romeo and Juliet Love Death"

2007-2008

  • April 22, 2008: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - Lisa Myobun Freinkel (U. Oregon) - "Takuan's Sword and the Koan of Macbeth"
  • February 26, 2008: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - Michael Schoenfeldt (U. Michigan) - "Aesthetics and Anesthetics: The Art of Pain Management in Early Modern England"
  • February 12, 2008: Strode Shakespeare Lecture - David Lee Miller (U. Southern California) - "The Voice of Caesar's Wounds"
  • September 8, 2007: Strode Symposium "Shakespeareans in the Tempest: Lives and Afterlives of Katrina" - Richelle Munkhoff (U. Colorado, Boulder, formerly Tulane U.) - "'The rack dislimns': Figuring Mississippi and New Orleans After Katrina" - Bill Boelhower (LSU) - "Owning the Weather: Teaching The Tempest after Katrina" - Catherine Loomis (UNC Greensboro, formerly U. New Orleans) - "'Not what we ought to say':  Katrina, King Lear, and Academic Identity" - Clare Moncrief  (Tulane University) -"Shakespeare after Katrina: Observations from Inside the Tempest" - Susannah Monta (Notre Dame) - "Hurricanes and Hampton Court" - Malcolm Richardson (LSU) - "Heath-Steppers and their Heath after Katrina"

2006-2007

  • April 14, 2007: Strode Symposium "Shakespeare and the Civic" - Kate McLuskie (The Shakespeare Institute) -"'The cause of wit in other men': Shakespeare and the occasions of leadership" - Scott Newstok (Yale/Gustavus Adolphus College) -  "Civics Lessens:  Un-condensing the Seminar" - Richard Burt (U. Florida) - "A Credit to his Race:  The Cinematic ShakesPR Paratext" - Don Hedrick (Kansas State U) - "Theatocracy and Entertainment Culture" - Amy Scott-Douglass (Denison U.) - "Shakespeare Goes to Washington: Military and Civic Programs during the Bush Administration" - Sharon O'Dair (U. Alabama) - "Virtually There:  Shakespeare and Tourism in the 21st Century."
  • April 13, 2007: Strode Workshop - Nicholas Janni (Olivier Mythodrama) - “Influential Leadership:  Lessons from Julius Caesar”
  • April 10, 2007: Strode Theory and Criticism Lecture - David Turley (U. Kent) - "Liberals versus Evangelicals in Early 19th Century Boston: Religion, Approaches to Reform, and How Dealing with Slavery Stymied them All"