The Gascoigne Seminar Friday 21st September, 2007  To be held at Lincoln College, Oxford

George Gascoigne, the most inventive and influential poet of the generation before Spenser and Sidney, died on 7^th October 1577. To mark the 430^th anniversary of his death and the current revival of interest in his work, an international seminar is being held at Lincoln College, Oxford.

The chair will be Prof G.W. Pigman III, editor of Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573), Oxford University Press, 2000. Other participants will include: 

Prof David Norbrook             (University of Oxford) Prof Richard McCoy              (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Prof Lorna Hutson                  (University of St Andrew’s) Dr Elizabeth Heale                  (University of Reading) Prof Meredith Skura               (Rice University, Texas) Dr Catherine Bates                 (University of Warwick) Dr Elizabeth Goldring              (University of Warwick) Dr Katharine Wilson               (Oxford Brookes University) Dr Allyna Ward                      (Modern Humanities Research Association) Dr Amina Alyal                       (Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds) Dr Gillian Austen                     (University of Bristol) Dr Stephen Hamrick                (Minnesota State University Moorhead)

 The day will include a private viewing of a selection of Gascoigne’s books at the Bodleian Library, including Gabriel Harvey’s annotated copy of Gascoigne’s The Posies (1575).  Click here for the full programme. Proceedings will be published in due course.

To book a place

The Gascoigne Seminar is organised by Dr Stephen Hamrick (Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University Moorhead) and Dr Gillian Austen (Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol).

To book a place at the seminar, or to make informal enquiries, please email Gillian Austen (gillian.austen@lincoln.oxon.org) or Stephen Hamrick (hamrick@mnstate.edu).