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Keynote Speaker

We are pleased to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will be Nathalie Hester and Stanley Fish.

Natalie Hester

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

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).