Readings and papers

This space features readings and papers from recent and upcoming Colloquium events. Please keep in mind that these papers are the property of their authors and that they are often drafts in progress. Some papers may be taken offline after the event and replaced with a link to the author's e-mail address. Please seek the permission of an individual author before using or quoting any parts of these papers. Some papers may be taken offline after the event and replaced with a link to the author's e-mail address.
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October 26, 2006

Jason Cohen, ""To Join Humanity": Latency and Policy in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis."

April 10, 2006

Anupam Basu, "Historicizing the Early Modern Rogue."

January 31, 2006

Dan Gibbons, "Mystical Tongues, Tongues of Desire: Semantic Excess in John Donne’s Divine Poems."

December 14, 2005

Will Rogers, "Early Modern If's: Shakespeare and the Grammar of the Reformation."

November 16, 2005

Dennis Britton, "“For so must all things excellent begin”: Genealogies of Race and Allegories of Religion in The Faerie Queene."

September 22, 2005

Alex Block, "Donne's Communicating Sacraments: The Struggle to Control Signification in the Prose and Verse Epistles."

April Fools' Colloquium, April 1, 2005

Kate Merz, "Missing wits and missing bits: fools and eunuchs in English visions of the Mediterranean."
Aaron Spooner, "The Drunk, Old Man behind the Arras: Paying the Debts of the Nation."

February 11, 2005

Julia Lupton, "Emancipation and its Equivocalities: Arendt and Shakespeare."