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2023.4.19. Jessie Hock: Shakespeare’s Willy

The Modern and Contemporary Colloquium and The Organism for Poetic Research welcome you to a fabulous conversation with Jessie Hock:
“Shakespeare’s Willy: On Renaissance Dick Jokes”
When: 6:30 PM; Wednesday April 19th, 2023
Where: The Great Room, 19 University Place 
 
All in-person attendees not affiliated with NYU must RSVP here by Monday April 17th to be approved for NYU campus access.   
Jessie Hock is associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She writes on English and continental Renaissance poetry, the history of materialist thought, classical reception history, and contemporary philosophy and critical theory. Her first book is The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), and she is currently working on the legacy of classical materialist philosophy in 20th and 21st century philosophy and theory. Recent and forthcoming articles include pieces on Derrida, Deleuze, and Lucretius; Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson; Michel de Montaigne; John Milton; and Remy Belleau. She is also co-translator (with Alex Dubilet) of two books by contemporary French philosopher, François Laruelle.
 
We look forward to having you join us!