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Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe 2025 will feature the following plenary speakers:
Julie Crawford - Columbia University, New York
Julie Crawford - Columbia University, New York
Julie Crawford is Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) and Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England (Oxford UP, 2014). She is the new editor (Early Seventeenth Century) for the Norton Anthology of English Literature, recently edited a special issue of English Literary Renaissance, and is serving as the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Margaret Cavendish which will be published in 2025. She is currently working on two books, one on Milton’s Paradise Lost, for the Core Knowledge series, and one on Margaret Cavendish.
Plenary Lecture: Monsters in the Margins
Plenary Lecture: Monsters in the Margins
Johannes Dillinger - Oxford Brookes University
Johannes Dillinger - Oxford Brookes University
Johannes Dillinger is Professor of Early Modern History at Oxford Brookes University (UK) and Honorary Professor of Modern History and Regional History at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany). He is the editor of The Routledge History of Witchcraft (2019) and the author of Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), among others. He has published widely on Witchcraft and Magic, Political Crime, and Constitutional History.
Plenary Lecture: Witchcraft and Other Forms of Magic: Popular Demonology and Folk Belief in Early Modern Germany
Plenary Lecture: Witchcraft and Other Forms of Magic: Popular Demonology and Folk Belief in Early Modern Germany
Sonia Massai - Sapienza, University of Rome
Sonia Massai - Sapienza, University of Rome
Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy) and Affiliate Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London (UK), where she taught from 2003 to 2023. With Amy Lidster, she is co-editor of Shakespeare at War: A Material History (2023) and co-curator of the Shakespeare and War exhibition at the National Army Museum (October 2023 – April 2024). She has published widely in the fields of Shakespeare, Editing and Textual Studies, Shakespeare in Performance, Book History and Global Shakespeare. She is currently preparing a new Shakespeare Arden edition of Richard III, and she has recently been appointed as a General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare (CSE) series.
Plenary Lecture: Who’s Afraid of Shakespeare’s Witches? The Textual and Theatrical Genealogies of “Edward’s Wife, that Monstrous Witch, ... and that Harlot Strumpet Shore”
Plenary Lecture: Who’s Afraid of Shakespeare’s Witches? The Textual and Theatrical Genealogies of “Edward’s Wife, that Monstrous Witch, ... and that Harlot Strumpet Shore”
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