SAQ Panel Discussion at Tulane University of Louisiana

October 26, 2023

November 8 • 2023 • 7 p.m. CST (Central Standard Time)
Also FREE to attend on Zoom

What do we know about the author of Shakespeare's works? Journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler leads an international panel of academics in a discussion of this controversial topic. Her new book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard became the Biggest Taboo in Literature, is an “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy . . . and who the playwright might really be. It is the first in-depth investigation into academia's reaction to research questioning William of Stratford's authorship of Shakespeare's works. The Guardian calls it “a fascinating detective story . . . whose irreverence is part of its appeal.

Moderator:

Elizabeth Winkler has a bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton and a Master of Arts Degree in English from Stanford University. She is a journalist and book critic based in Washington, DC. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Economist, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New Yorker, among other publications. .

Panelists:

John Ray Proctor is Assistant Professor of Theater at Tulane. He has an MFA in Acting from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in Theatre Research (with a primary focus on Shakespeare Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Scott Oldenburg is Associate Professor of English at Tulane. He has his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Buffalo. He specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literary and cultural studies.

Ros Barber is an English novelist and poet with a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and a Doctorate in English Literature from the University of Sussex. She lectures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Dr. Earl Showerman graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School.  Dr. Showerman has published and presented numerous papers on the topic of Shakespeare’s Greek dramatic sources and knowledge of medicine.

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