Date:
Thursday, September 22, 2022 (All day) to Friday, September 23, 2022 (All day)
Location:
Edison and Newman Room, 1st Floor Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Curated by Harvard graduate students in English, this pop-up exhibition is inspired by “Trans-Reformation English Writing,” a graduate seminar taught by professor James Simpson for many years using objects from Houghton. Items include texts by Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The exhibition is part of "Illuminated and Unsettled: Literary Forms and Cultural Power, Medieval to Early Modern," Harvard English Department's 2022 Morton W. Bloomfield Conference honoring Simpson’s career as a teacher and scholar.
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