CANCELED: English Department Lecture Series: Sarah Beckwith “Losing the Name of Action”

Sarah Beckwith is a Professor at Duke Univeristy specializing in Medieval literature and Renaissance/early modern literature. Educated at Oxford University with a Ph.D. from London University, her book Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi was published by the Univeristy of Chicago Press in 2003. She was the co-editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies for many years and is a co-founder of the series Re-Formations through the University of Notre Dame Press.