The Renaissances Graduate Research Series: “Vnfortunate Termes: Thomas Nashe and the Early Modern Literary Marketplace"
Speakers): Alan Stewart & Juan Lamata
Please join us Monday, March 11at 6pmin Building 260, Room 252 for our event “Vnfortunate Termes: Thomas Nashe and the Early Modern Literary Marketplace,” a conversation between Juan Lamata (English, ý) and Alan Stewart (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University), part of the Renaissances Graduate Research Series, which stages conversations between advanced Ph.D. students at ý and interlocutors of their work.
For our winter event, Juan Lamata, a Ph.D. candidate in English, will present a chapter of his dissertation, titled“Masterless I: Form and Commodity in The Unfortunate Traveler."Hewill be joined by Alan Stewart, Professor and Chair of the English & Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University, who will present his essay, “‘Tois For Private Gentleman?’: Thomas Nashe’s Letter to William Cotton.” Alan Stewart is most recently the author of the volume on early modern life writing for The Oxford History of Life-Writing (2019) and Shakespeare’s Letters (OUP, 2008).
Both authors will present their respectiveessays, which may be obtained from the chair of the Renaissances group, mlmenna [at] stanford.edu (Michael Menna). These presentations will set up points of intersection between the two projects, and we will then open the floor to discussion and questions.Dinner will be served.
mlmenna [at] stanford.edu (Please RSVP to: mlmenna[at]stanford[dot]edu).
Michael Lind Menna, Ph.D. Candidate, ý
Roland Greene, Professor of English and Comparative Literature