We are pleased to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will be Nathalie Hester and Stanley Fish.
Nathalie Hester
Anatomy of an Epic Battle in Baroque Italy: Poetry, Politics, and the Americas
Friday, September 16
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Gilman Hall 132
Nathalie Hester is Associate Professor of Italian and French at the University of Oregon. Her most recent book is titled Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing (Ashgate Press, 2008). Her research and teaching interests include Renaissance and Baroque literature, travel literature, early modern French and Italian historiography, early modern Italian convent culture, feminist theory, and seventeenth-century women’s writing.
Stanley Fish
Count It and They Will Come: The Promise of the Digital Humanities
Saturday, September 17
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Gilman 132
Stanley Fish is a literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He has previously taught law at Florida International University and is dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent publications are Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education (Princeton, 2015).