TALK: Actaeon’s Coat
Laurie Shannon (Duke University)
Friday, April 22 / 2:00 PM / Free
English Department Seminar Room, South Hall, 2635
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Laurie Shannon is Associate Professor of English at
Duke University, where she specializes in English Renaissance
thought and writing. She is the author of Sovereign
Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shaespearean Contexts,
and is a graduate of Harvard Law School who uses her
legal training as one of her tools in the analysis of
Elizabethean life. Her talk will address the philosophical
place of animals as the underwriters of “Man”
in the earlymodern milieu, when Elizabetheans made surprisingly
ambiguous attempts to distinquish humans from animals.
This talk is sponsored by American Cultures and Global
Contexts Center, Early Modern Center, Center for Creativity
and Innovation and the IHC.
