Seeing the Spider: The Visual Experience of Textual Variation in Shakespeare

Friday, February 19, 2016 - 5:30pm
Linsley-Chittenden Hall See map
63 High St
New Haven, CT 06511

The Yale English Department Renaissance Colloquium
and the Digital Humanities Working Group

are delighted to present

Alan Galey

University of Toronto

Seeing the Spider: The Visual Experience of Textual Variation in Shakespeare”
 

Friday, Feb. 19th 5:30 pm

LC 319

Alan Galey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture, and serves as Director of the Master of Information graduate program. His research and teaching are located at the intersection of textual studies, the history of books and reading, and the digital humanities, and his current research focuses mainly on the bibliographical study of born-digital texts and artifacts.

Friday’s event will be a discussion of Prof. Galey’s paper, “Seeing the Spider: The Visual Experience of Textual Variation in Shakespeare”. A link to the paper can be found here (also attached), along with an accompanying image presentation. Wine and refreshments will be provided. If you are interested in attending a dinner to be held after this event, please email andrew.s.brown@yale.edu or clio.doyle@yale.edu.