Humanities professor Bill Engel, author of five books on intellectual history and literary studies, has a new book at press about the debt that major figures of the American Renaissance, such as Melville and Poe, owe to medieval and baroque aesthetics. Oxford literary critic Emma Smith recently commented on Bill's latest work, Chiastic Designs in English Literature (2009): "Engel's critical vocabulary comes from Cassirer and Panofsky, and his aesthetic categories from Virgil, Ovid, and Aristotle." We all anxiously await Bill's latest project.
]]>Matthew Irvin received a Lindsay Young Regional Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the University of Tennessee, participated in the NEH "Ritual and Ceremony from Late Medieval Europe to Early America" Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and presented a paper entitled, "Augustine's and Chaucer's Dido: Pudor and Pity in the "Legend of Dido" at the 17th Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress in Siena, Italy. His article, "Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis" is forthcoming in "John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation and Tradition", edited by Elizabeth Dutton, John Hines, and R.F. Yeager, part of the series, Westfield Medieval Studies, published through Queen Mary University and D.S. Brewer.
]]>To aid in her research of the Roman poets Horace and Statius, McCarter spent the month of June exploring the ruins of Greece with her husband, fellow Classical Languages Professor Daniel Holmes.
]]>After teaching "The Classic Russian Novel," a course in the Sewanee School of Letters program, Skomp will travel to Stockholm to present a paper to the ICCEES World Congress.
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