is professor of English & Comparative Literature, Classics, and Romance Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. She is the author of Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge UP, 2004) and of Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes (Toronto UP, 2015). Her scholarly interests include intellectual history and the history of classical scholarship, and she has published articles and essays on Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Erasmus, Hobbes, and Thomas Browne, among other authors and topics. As O.B. Hardison long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library during the 2017-18 academic year, she has embarked on a biography of the poet, playwright, and translator George Chapman. She hails from New York City and has lived for almost two decades in Durham, NC.
A guest post by Jessica Wolfe If the name George Chapman rings a bell, it is likely because you once read John Keats’s 1816 sonnet, “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” which describes the Romantic poet’s experience of reading Chapman’s…
Stay connected
Find out what’s on, read our latest stories, and learn how you can get involved.
