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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/emily-wilson-reading-october-7-2020">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/emily-wilson-reading-october-7-2020</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Plagues from the Past: readings from Oedipus Tyrannos and the Iliad</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Emily Wilson, Reading from her translations of ancient Greek texts<i>
</i></span></strong><br>
<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">followed by a conversation with Emily Greenwood, Yale Department of Classics
</span></i></strong><br>
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 4 PM<br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Mark Strand Memorial Reading</span></em><i><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series at Beinecke Library</span></em></i><br>
<b>ZOOM link will be circulated and listed on the Readings at Yale list and website shortly before the reading:
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/readings-yale-university">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/readings-yale-university</a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Professor Emily Wilson will deliver the 2020 Mark Strand Memorial Reading online on Wednesday, October 7, at 4pm (a zoom link will be posted and circulated in October).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Celebrated for her vivid and lyrical translation of Homer’s <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Odyssey,
</span></em>Wilson will read from new work currently in progress: translations of Homer’s<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Iliad</span></em> and
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oedipus Tyrannos</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The reading will be followed by a conversation with Professor Emily Greenwood, Yale Department of Classics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Emily Wilson</span></strong> is the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, professor of Classical Studies, and graduate chair of the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary
Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. and Corpus Christi College M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern
scholarship. In 2019 she was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2020 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
<a href="https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/home">More information</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Emily Greenwood </span>
</strong>studied Classics at Cambridge University, where she gained her BA, MPhil, and PhD degrees. She joined the Classics department at Yale in July 2009. Her research interests include twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics
in Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and Greece), Classics and Postcolonialism, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature.
<a href="https://classics.yale.edu/people/emily-greenwood">More information</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Mark Strand Memorial Readings</span></strong> are endowed by Dr. Jeffrey V. Ravetch ’73. Dr. Ravetch’s gift honors his friend and fellow Yale graduate, poet and visual artist Mark Strand ’59 BFA.
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/mark-strand-memorial-reading">
More information</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Photo of Emily Wilson by Kyle Cassidy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ZOOM link will be circulated and listed on the Readings at Yale list and website shortly before the reading:
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/readings-yale-university">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/readings-yale-university</a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
<span style="color:#0563C1">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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