The Center for Digital Humanities at Maynooth University, An Foras Feasa, is pleased to announce special guest lecture by visiting fellow Professor Robert Whalen on 'George Herbert: Complete Prose, with Latin and Greek Verse: A Critical Edition'. The lecture will take place at 10am on Wednesday 12 April in the An Foras Feasa Seminar Room (Room no.1.33) and will be followed by a coffee break at 11am. We would be delighted if you could join us on the date.
Robert Whalen (PhD, University of Toronto) is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Northern Michigan University. His publications include The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert (U of Toronto P); articles in Renaissance Quarterly, Early Modern Literary Studies, Digital Studies, and Harold Bloom’s John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets; and The Digital Temple, an edition of George Herbert’s English verse for University of Virginia Press, co-edited with Christopher Hodgkins. He has been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and lead investigator for two NEH Scholarly Editions Grants. His current editorial project, also with Hodgkins, is a joint print and digital edition of Herbert’s ‘Complete Prose, with Latin and Greek Verse.