Peggy McCracken, Director, Institute for the Humanities; Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities; Professor of French, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature
Valerie Traub, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Basil Duffalo, Professor of Classical Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature
Yopie Prins, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Panel discussion of “Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650,” Edited by Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken
Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition to analysing various translations and commentaries, the volume clusters essays around treatments of John Lyly’s Galatea (c. 1585) and Issac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante (1637). As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change.
This event is part of IRWG’s Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.
There will be an instant-win raffle at the beginning of the event for 5 free copies of the book! Must be present to win!
