Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English, University of Georgia, will present a talk on “Shakespeare and Contemporary Cancer Narratives” at 4:00 on Monday February 27 in the Bangor Room, Memorial Union. A reception will follow.
Professor Iyengar is the author of Shakespeare’s Medical Language ( 2014), Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (2005), and essays in journals such as Shakespeare Survey, Literature/Film Quarterly, Shakespeare Quarterly, Postmodern Culture, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. She co-founded and edits the award-winning online, multimedia, scholarly journal Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, and edited a collection on Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (2015). Her current project is a study of Shakespeare and the Art of the Book.
Event sponsored by The English Department’s Lloyd Elliott Fund, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the UMaine Humanities Center.