"Shakespeare 451: Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, and Humanities Teaching Today"

(in collaboration with the Department of English, the Mansfield Library, and the Office of the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs)

8:00 PM Thursday, November 19, 2015
University Center Ballroom

"Identity Theft: Psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the Crisis in the Humanities"

3:40 PM Thursday, November 19, 2015
Gallagher Business Building Room 123

Please join us for a seminar and lecture with Marjorie Garber. After earning a Ph.D. from Yale University, she taught there and then at Haverford College before joining the English Department faculty at Harvard University in 1981. She has been the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English since 1995. In addition to a half-dozen different courses on Shakespeare, her curriculum includes the following: Jane Austen, Major English Poets, Metaphysical Poetry, Renaissance Drama, Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Poetry, and many others. She is a well-known public commentator on literature and literary theory. Charlie Rose has interviewed her on his television program. In 2010, she was chosen to chair the judging committee of the non-fiction category of the National Book Awards. This past summer, she was a featured commentator on the BBC/PBS television series, Shakespeare Uncovered.

Professor Garber’s list of published works runs to seventeen titles, plus seven volumes of edited works and dozens of major scholarly articles and op-ed pieces. The work she has done on Shakespeare has made her a leader in that field. Newsweek chose her Shakespeare After All as one of the five best non-fiction books of 2004 and praised it as the “indispensable introduction to an indispensable writer,” adding “Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.” We are confident that this encomium constitutes truthful advertising for the seminar that she will lead in the President’s Lecture Series.

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.