Newstok to Present the Haines Lecture
This year, our Haines Lecturer will be the professor and critic Scott Newstok. He will deliver the 30th Haines Lecture, titled, “How to Think Like Shakespeare (and Other Humans),” at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Convocation Hall.
Scott Newstok is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. An award-winning teacher, he has published a scholarly edition of Kenneth Burke’s Shakespeare criticism; a monograph on early modern English epitaphs; a collection of essays on Macbeth and race (co-edited with Ayanna Thompson); a posthumous edition of Michael Cavanagh’s “Paradise Lost: A Primer”; and, most recently, “How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education.” He’s currently editing Michel de Montaigne’s essays on education, in a new version by award-winning translator Tess Lewis; and co-authoring (with John Guillory) an archival history of the cultural technique of “close reading.”
This series of lectures and readings, funded permanently by gifts in Stacy Haine’s memory from his family and friends, and administered by the College Department of English, stands as a natural and proper extension of the man and his interests.