Renaissance & RGSS Colloquia: Mario Digangi “Affective Entanglements and Alternative Histories on the Early Modern Stage”

Event time: 
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), LC 105 See map
63 High St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Mario DiGangi (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he serves as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in English. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 1997) and Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (Pennsylvania, 2011), and has also contributed to several collections, including Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare; Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater; and A Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, Race. He has edited Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare, and The Winter’s Tale for the Bedford Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts series. His current project explores affective politics in early modern history plays. He currently serves as President of the Shakespeare Association of America.

The paper will be distributed the week of the event. Kirk Warner, a 6th-year PhD student in English, will be responding.

Open to: 
General Public

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