Jesse Lander

March 21, 2012

Wednesday, March 21 at 5:30, LC 319. The Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium presents: Jesse Lander is the Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Associate Professor of English and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Along with the Introduction to Graduate Studies, Lander regularly teaches courses on Shakespeare, history of books, and humanism. He is especially interested in supervising students working on questions of historiography and historicism as well as textual studies and editorial theory.  In the Spring of 2010, Lander taught Mastering Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, a course designed to help students take advantage of the Folger’s unparalleled collection of early modern rare books and manuscripts.   Lander is currently preparing the text of 1 Henry IV for the 3rd edition of the Norton Shakespeare, writing a book provisionally entitled, “They Say That Miracles Are Past”: Staging the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s England, and researching a second book-length project on the history of Shakespeare quotation.

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