Wendy Beth Hyman
- Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Chair of Book Studies
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Wendy Beth Hyman Elected as a Trustee of Shakespeare Association of America, Delivered Talks This Spring
Professor Wendy Beth Hyman has been elected to serve as a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has also given three invited talks this spring: 鈥淲hy the Renaissance Matters Now: Teaching the Early Modern with Integrity鈥 (Stanford University), 鈥淪hakespeare and the Ingenious Machine鈥 (Huntington Library), and 鈥淚ntellectual Wellness: The Commonplace Book Tradition鈥 (Cleveland Humanities Festival/Cuyahoga Community College).
Wendy Beth Hyman's Monograph Identified as聽an 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Beth Hyman's monograph, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Oxford UP, 2019), was identified as an 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥 by CHOICE 2021. Her co-edited collection, Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now (Edinburgh UP, 2019) has gone into paperback. She recently published an article, 鈥淏eyond Beyond: Cymbeline and the Ontology of Elsewhere,鈥 in 52.3. Along with Jen Waldron, she was guest editor of a special issue of that journal, Theorizing Early Modern Fictions. Finally, an article called 鈥淧atterns, The Shakespearean Sonnet, and Conduits of Scale鈥 appeared in Spenser Studies 36 (June 2022).
Wendy Beth Hyman Participates in Roundtable at the Shakespeare Association of America
Professor Wendy Beth Hyman participated in a remote roundtable, 鈥淪hakespeare and Social Justice: From Principle to Action,鈥 at the Shakespeare Association of America and also gave an invited talk on literary imagination and Shakespeare鈥檚 Cymbeline at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She will present the lecture, 鈥淥vid, Shakespeare, and Rape: Empowering Survivors in the Early Modern Classroom,鈥 at the online in December.
Wendy Beth Hyman gives invited lectures
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Beth Hyman has given two recent invited lectures. The first, 鈥淗ow Sonnets Think,鈥 took place remotely at Oxford Brookes University in the UK; and 鈥淛ohn Donne鈥檚 Flea and the Scientific Revolution鈥 was delivered to the John Donne Society. She was also recently interviewed by Jeffrey R. Wilson (Harvard University) for a forthcoming project called 鈥淎n Oral History of Public Shakespeare.鈥
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