Walker Building, Room 232 Free and open to the public. Please RSVP by November 28 at this EventBrite link: https://yujinko.eventbrite.com Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given visitor access. ---- The Afterlives of Shakespeare's Original Stage Conditions: From Boston to Seoul Yu Jin Ko is Professor of English at Wellesley College, where he teaches Shakespeare, Studies in Fiction, and Writers of Color, among other topics. He is the author of Mutability and Division on Shakespeare’s Stage (2004) and co-editor of…
Find out more »"The Myth of the Pre-Racial in the Middle Ages." Room 232, Walker Building. Please RSVP by Wed, March 20 at the EventBrite link above. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event. Free and open to the public. --- "The Myth of the Pre-Racial in the Middle Ages" Abstract: This talk will address the centrality of race in the Middle Ages and why the historiography of the term "race" in the 19th and 20th century explains…
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.