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Linda Gregerson Poetry Reading, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Oct 11, 2019

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

English-Philosophy Building, Gerber Lounge, 304 EPB

251 West Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA 52242

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Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson will read a selection of her poetry and essays.

Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She is co-editor of Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic and author of The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic, as well as six books of poetry and a volume of essays on the contemporary American lyric. Her essays on Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wyatt, and Jonson appear in numerous journals and anthologies. She has received awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, the Modern Poetry Association, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Mellon, and Rockefeller Foundations. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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