Linda Gregerson
Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Michigan

Violence and the Word: Ben Jonson on Stage
Thursday, January 29 / 4 PM / Humanities 210

Poetry Reading
Friday, January 30 / 12 PM / Humanities 210

Linda Gregerson’s current book projects include The Commonwealth of the Word, a study of Reformed community in the early modern British North Atlantic; Religion and Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic World, co-edited with Susan Juster; The Social Life of Poems, a collection of essays on the lyric; and Dido in Darkness, a collection of poems. Her previous books include The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Cambridge, 1995), and Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (Michigan, 2001). Her most recent volume of poetry, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), was a finalist for the National Book Award. An earlier volume, Waterbourne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize.

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