Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles: She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit?

Prof Carole Levin from the University of Nebraska will be visiting Crems and presenting her work-in-progress seminar.
Carole is also preparing an application to spend time in CREMS on the Fulbright Programme, and will be happy to share her thoughts and advice on this.

Carole Levin specialises in early modern English women's and cultural history. She has been the recipient of two National Endowments for the Humanities long-term fellowships. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has worked on two major exhibits: "Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend" at the Newberry Library in Chicago and "To Sleep Perchance to Dream" at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.

Publications include

• Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell University Press, 2009)
• Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
• The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
• The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), named one of the top ten academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca in September 2000

ALL WELCOME

Tea and coffee from 4.15pm