Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Shakespeare Scholar Discusses 'Nature of Norms' at Washington College

Chestertown, MD — Dr. Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan will present "The Nature of Norms: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear" at Washington College's Sophie Kerr Room on Wednesday, April 16, at 4:30 p.m.

Dr. Traub is professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, where she is Director of the Women's Studies Program. Her publications include Gay Shame, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects and Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama.

Dr. Traub's essays have appeared in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, English Literary Renaissance, Feminist Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies and elsewhere. Her book in progress is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern Text: The Prehistory of Normality.

Her April 16 lecture will conclude Washington College's 2007-2008 Sophie Kerr Lecture Series. The series honors the legacy of the late Sophie Kerr, a writer from Denton, Md., whose generosity has enriched Washington College's literary culture.

When she died in 1965, Kerr left the bulk of her estate to Washington College, specifying that one half of the income from her bequest be awarded every year to the senior showing the most "ability and promise for future fulfillment in the field of literary endeavor"—the famed Sophie Kerr Prize—and the other half be used to bring visiting writers to campus, to fund scholarships and to help defray the costs of student publications.

Admission to "The Nature of Norms" is free and open to the public. The Sophie Kerr Room is located in Miller Library. For more information, call 410/778-7879.

April 1, 2008

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