Join English Professor Jennifer Munroe at Personally Speaking on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to learn how we to better understand the world of William Shakespeare’s plays and the relationships among men, women, animals, and plants that we see in them.
Her book Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory looks at both representations of “environment” that might provide insight into these relationships in early modern English history — especially those related to gender identity, and at how people’s understanding of their relationship to “environment” 400 years ago might help us redress our own environmental crises today.
Munroe will lead a conversation about her book at UNC Charlotte Center City (320 E. 9th St., Charlotte 28202). Doors will open at 6 p.m. for a reception, and the program will begin at 7 p.m. A dessert reception and book-signing will follow the author’s presentation
The event is open to the public without charge, but registration is required. Information about parking will be emailed to registrants a few days prior to the event.
This marks the 10th season in which UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, in partnership with J. Murrey Atkins Library and UNC Charlotte Center City, has presented free public conversations between the community and its published scholars about their research and their books.
Munroe is a professor of English at UNC Charlotte. She is a founding member of EMROC (Early Modern Recipes Online Collective), which is developing a public-access database of transcribed early modern manuscript recipes. She is working on an ecofeminist literary history of science titled, Mothers of Science: Women, Nature, and Writing in Early Modern England.Munroe co-wrote Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory with Rebecca Laroche who teaches Shakespeare, early modern women’s writing, and the environmental humanities at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.