Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Feb 2014
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
Location
Kent Hall
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The Columbia Early Modern Seminar welcomes
Paul Cefalu (Lafayette College)
“Incarnational Apophatic: Rethinking Divine Accommodation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost”
6:15PM, 522C Kent Hall
Professor Paul Cefalu specializes in the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England. He is the author of* Early Modern English Literature and Contemporary Theory: Sublime Objects of Theology* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), *Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature* (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and *Revisionist Shakespeare: Transitional Ideologies in Texts and Contexts* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and, with Bryan Reynolds, the editor of *The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Professor Cefalu has also published articles on a variety of early modern subjects, as well as on narratives and histories of mental illness. He is currently a long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where he is at work on a project on the theology of accommodation in early modern English literature.
This event is free and open to the public; please email Chris McKeen ([email protected]) for a copy of Professor Cefalu’s paper, which will be the subject of the seminar’s discussion.