Shakespearean Scholars to assemble in UCC
29.09.2011
UCC is hosting a prestigious conference of some of the leading Shakespeare scholars this October. Professor Goran Stanivukovic, a senior Marie Curie Research Fellow in the School of English, is co-ordinating the 2011 conference of the Bergen Shakespeare Research Network, to be held in Distillery House on 5-7 October. The topic of this year's conference is Shakespeare: Sources and Directions. Participants will discuss a wide range of unconventional angles and foreign places from which Shakespeare may have drawn inspiration, and they will present how Shakespeare's texts are re-imagined in cultures other than that of the West.

Highlights will include presentations by eminent Shakespeare scholars like Catherine Belsey (Cardiff), Tom Cartelli (Mehlenburg College, USA), Susan Wofford (New York University), and Stuart Sillars (Bergen). Participants will come from USA, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Norway, France, and Hungary.

Goran Stanivukovic, Marie Curie Fellow in the School of English, is working on a study of early Shakespeare and the 1590s style in literature, visual culture, and architecture. He is a scholar of English Renaissance whose and he has published books and articles on topics like Ovid and the Renaissance body, masculinity and prose romances in Renaissance England, queer early modern English literature, Shakespeare and the Mediterranean, and sexuality in Shakespeare.

<<Previous Item Next Item>>

« Back to 2011 Press Releases