Mediation, adaptation, and Milton's Eve -- from Renaissance epic to TV procedural

WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

SPEAKER: Lauren Shohet, Villanova University

Lauren Shohet holds the Luckow Family Professorship in English at Villanova University. Her talk is part of her new major project, which considers the long history of media change and its impact on literary form. This book explores how John Milton’s representation of Eve – and later writers’ adaptations of Milton’s Eve – engages these issues. Recent and forthcoming articles include “Media, Mediation, and Milton’s Eve” (in Milton Today, a special issue of Milton Studies (62.2) and “The Idea of the Interface and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline” (The Routledge Companion to the Interface, ed. Paul Budra and Clifford Werier).

Her earlier work includes Reading Masques: the English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010) and a plethora of articles and essays. She has edited the collections Temporality, Genre, and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare: Forms of Time (Bloomsbury/Arden, 2018), and (with Kristen Poole) Gathering Force: British Literature in Transition 1557-1623 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as the in-process What’s Queer about Early Modern Death? with Christine Varnado. She is also the Subject Editor for Literature and Drama in English for Routledge On-line Resources: the Renaissance, a digital project.