Book Launch - Carole Levin & Marguerite A. Tassi - Creatively Expanding the Premodern: Historical and Literary Afterliv

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• Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025  5:30pm - 6:30pm

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Join us as we celebrate the release of Creatively Expanding the Premodern: Historical and Literary Afterlives by Carole Levin, Marguerite A.Tassi, Christine Stewart-Nuñez and Julia Griffin.

Co-authors Carole Levin and Marguerite A.Tassi will read from the book with Q&A and booksigning to follow.

About the Book:
This book highlights the stories of women from premodern history and literature through models of adaptations, retellings, and criticism such as poems, plays, and essays. In reviving these voices from the background, it widens the appeal and accessibility of scholarship in the humanities.

About the Authors:

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska where she specializes in early modern English women's and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University. Her books include, Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell University Press, 2009); Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which was named one of the top ten academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca, September, 2000. She has worked on two major exhibits, "Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend" at the Newberry Library in Chicago and "To Sleep Perchance to Dream" at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities long-term fellowships. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Marguerite A. Tassi is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama (2005) and Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and Ethics (2012) and the editor of Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare (2018).