Bruce Holsinger: “Evovae: Liturgy, Lyric, Lyricism”

Thursday, February 9 in LC 317 at 5 p.m.  The English Department Late-Medieval English Literature Series presents: Bruce Holsinger is  Professor of English and Music, University of Virginia. Professor Holsinger’s books include Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001), which explores the medieval understanding and aesthetic of music as a practice of the flesh, and The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (2005), which looks at the influence of Medieval Studies on French theory of the postwar generation. He is currently completing a book on liturgical culture and the literary history of premodern Britain, and has begun a new project, ‘Archive of the Animal,’ on the parchment legacy and the ecology of the book.