Newberry 2013 Dissertation Seminar for Literary Scholars

Directed by Wendy Wall and William West, both of Northwestern University

This seminar aims to create a broad-based community of graduate students at the beginning stages of work on their dissertations in early modern literature. The goal of the seminar will be to offer comments, perspectives, methods, and criticisms from a larger group of specialists than would be available on any single campus, and to encourage broader and deeper use of the unique resources of the Newberry Library and the Center for Renaissance Studies.

Discussions will focus on approaches to research and argument, with an eye to helping fresh Ph.D. candidates articulate the larger intellectual, historical, and theoretical significance of their particular research projects.