Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend
Lectures

There will be five lectures, all free and open to the public.
Lectures will take place at 7p.m. in the Muer Room, third floor, Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center

March 15, Carole Levin, University of Nebraska
"Can a Woman Rule Alone? Elizabeth and her Suitors."
A gala reception will follow the lecture.

Read the text of Dr. Carole Levin's lecture (pdf file)

Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska , Lincoln , earned her Ph.D. in English from Tufts University .   Her areas of specialization are late medieval and early modern English cultural studies and women's history.  Professor Levin has held a fellowship at the Newberry Library and was a long-term NEH fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.  She was the Senior Historical Consultant to the Newberry Library's original ”Elizabeth I” exhibit in 2003-2004.  Her book, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power  was listed by readers of the magazine Lingua Franca as one of the ten best scholarly books of the last decade.  Professor Levin is currently editing two books on queens in early modern England : Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman and High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England : Realities and Representations

March 22, Maryclaire Moroney, John Carroll University
"Fashioning the Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Representation."

Maryclaire Moroney  is Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University .  She earned her M.A.  and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University .  Professor Moroney is a winner of a Harvard-Danforth Center Teaching Award and has held a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities.  Professor Moroney's research and publications focus on English Renaissance literature and, particularly, on the work of Edmund Spenser.  She is currently working on a book dealing with the cultural and literary impact of the monastic dissolution of the 16 th century.

March 29, Vincent Carey, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
"Elizabeth, the State, and Religious Persecution."

Vincent P. Carey is Professor of European History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.   Professor Carey earned an M.A. in History from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  He is a winner of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and a Visiting Fellowship in Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway .  He is the author of a number of significant books and journal articles on the topics of religious persecution and the history of Ireland including the following: Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution, Taking Sides? Colonial and Confessional Mentalites in Early Modern Ireland , and Surviving the Tudors: Gerald the `Wizard' Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland , 1537-1586.

April 5, Anne Kugler, John Carroll University
"A goodly prey for every wretch to devour'" Elizabeth's Foreign Policy and the Spanish Armada."

Anne Kugler  is Chair of the Department of History at John Carroll University .   Her research focuses on gender issues, religion, aging, politics and culture in early modern England .  She earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan .  Professor Kugler has held a Mellon Fellowship and a Rackham Research Partnership Grant.  Her book Errant Plagiary and Its Uses: The Writing and Life of Lady Sarah Cowper was published by Stanford University Press.  She is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has authored journal publications on such topics as women and aging, and female identity.  

April 19, Howard Gray, S.J., John Carroll University
"Jesuits in the 16th Century: The Mission Behind the Myth."

Howard Gray, S.J.   is rector of the Jesuit Community at John Carroll University and assistant to the president for mission and identity.  He formerly served as the first director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Boston College . Holding graduate degrees in English literature, philosophy, and theology, he has taught at Boston College , Fordham University , Loyola University of Chicago, Loyola University of New Orleans, and the University of Detroit Mercy .  Fr. Gray's publications include An Experience In Ignatian Government , Studies In the Spirituality of the Jesuits and numerous journal articles.