{"id":4622,"date":"2012-02-16T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:31","slug":"221-mith-digital-dialogue-michael-witmore-shakespeare-from-the-waist-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/221-mith-digital-dialogue-michael-witmore-shakespeare-from-the-waist-down\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/21 MITH Digital Dialogue: Michael Witmore, “Shakespeare from the Waist Down”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MichaelTuesday, February 21, 12:30-1:45PM
\n2115 Tawes Hall
\nCo-sponsored by the Department of English<\/a><\/p>\n

“Shakespeare from the Waist Down” by MICHAEL WITMORE<\/p>\n

Using the analogy of a dancer to think about the ways in which poetic and theatrical effects are produced, Michael Witmore will explore the ways in which high-level theatrical effects — what literary critics call “plot” — might be visible in low-level activity at the level of the sentence. We may know a lot about the dancer (Shakespeare’s works) from the waist up, but digital analysis allows us to identify interesting moves taking place below the waist.<\/p>\n

This talk will be held in 2115 Tawes Hall.<\/p>\n

Michael Witmore became Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library on July 1, 2011. He was formerly Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he has served as Associate Professor of English and Assistant Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n

The recipient of numerous fellowships, he has held an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, a research fellowship and a curatorial residency fellowship at the Folger, and a predoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut f\u00fcr Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Dr. Witmore earned an A.B. in English at Vassar College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n

Among his more recent projects, he launched the Working Group for Digital Inquiry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and organized the Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His publications include numerous articles, website resources, and book chapters, and he has published five books: Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare<\/em>, with Rosamond Purcell (2010), Shakespearean Metaphysics<\/em> (2009), Pretty Creatures; Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance<\/em> (2007), Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe<\/em>, 1550-1800 (2006), and Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England<\/em> (2001). In addition, he has given scores of presentations and been invited to serve on numerous academic panels. He currently has several books in progress, including a study of early modern wisdom literature and a book on the nature of digital inquiry in the humanities. He will co-curate an exhibition for the Folger in the fall of 2012 tentatively titled “Very Like a Whale<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

A continuously updated schedule of talks is also available on the\u00a0Digital Dialogues webpage.<\/p>\n

Unable to attend the events in person?<\/p>\n

Archived podcasts can be found on the MITH website, and you can follow our Digital Dialogues Twitter account\u00a0@digdialog as well as the Twitter hashtag #mithdd to keep up with live tweets from our sessions.<\/p>\n

All talks free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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