Wendy Beth Hyman
- Donald R. Longman Professor in English
- Chair of Book Studies
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Wendy Beth Hyman Elected as a Trustee of Shakespeare Association of America, Delivered Talks This Spring
March 14, 2023
Professor Wendy Beth Hyman has been elected to serve as a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has also given three invited talks this spring: “Why the Renaissance Matters Now: Teaching the Early Modern with Integrity” (Stanford University), “Shakespeare and the Ingenious Machine” (Huntington Library), and “Intellectual Wellness: The Commonplace Book Tradition” (Cleveland Humanities Festival/Cuyahoga Community College).
Wendy Beth Hyman's Monograph Identified as an “Outstanding Academic Title”
September 5, 2022
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Beth Hyman's monograph, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Oxford UP, 2019), was identified as an “Outstanding Academic Title” by CHOICE 2021. Her co-edited collection, Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now (Edinburgh UP, 2019) has gone into paperback. She recently published an article, “Beyond Beyond: Cymbeline and the Ontology of Elsewhere,” in English Literary Renaissance 52.3. Along with Jen Waldron, she was guest editor of a special issue of that journal, Theorizing Early Modern Fictions. Finally, an article called “Patterns, The Shakespearean Sonnet, and Conduits of Scale” appeared in Spenser Studies 36 (June 2022).
Wendy Beth Hyman Participates in Roundtable at the Shakespeare Association of America
November 8, 2021
Professor Wendy Beth Hyman participated in a remote roundtable, “Shakespeare and Social Justice: From Principle to Action,” at the Shakespeare Association of America and also gave an invited talk on literary imagination and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She will present the lecture, “Ovid, Shakespeare, and Rape: Empowering Survivors in the Early Modern Classroom,” at the online Women and Power Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe in December.
Wendy Beth Hyman gives invited lectures
February 19, 2021
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Beth Hyman has given two recent invited lectures. The first, “How Sonnets Think,” took place remotely at Oxford Brookes University in the UK; and “John Donne’s Flea and the Scientific Revolution” was delivered to the John Donne Society. She was also recently interviewed by Jeffrey R. Wilson (Harvard University) for a forthcoming project called “An Oral History of Public Shakespeare.”
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Unraveling Medicinal Recipes from the 17th Century
November 18, 2019
Student volunteers work to produce searchable transcriptions of two 17th-century recipe books in a single day.