Fall 2025
Thursday, November 13, 6pm CST, Spence Wilson Room, Briggs Hall. Reception to follow.
Professor Ramie Targoff will be speaking about her recent book Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance (Penguin Random House, 2024). Shakespeare’s Sisters was named one of the Best Books of 2024 by both The New Yorker and The Boston Globe.
Ramie Targoff is the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and co-chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University. She has written multiple books, including Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018), and most recently Shakespeare’s Sisters.
This event is free and open to the public. Preregistration is required; please register at this link.