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The Pope and the Witch Talkback
For an in-depth look at “The Pope and the Witch” and its surrounding themes, the University Theatre will host a post-performance talkback with special guest scholars on Thursday, March 8th. Leading the discussion will be Prof. Herbert Blau (Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington) and two esteemed scholars from CLA, Prof. John Mowitt (Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature) and Prof. Ruth Mazo Karras (Department of History).
BIOGRAPHIES
Herbert Blau
The Byron W. & Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities. Herbert Blau (b. 1926) is professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington with a distinguished career in the professional theater. He was co-founder and co-director of the Actor’s Workshop of San Francisco, co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center and artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. Blau has published widely, his most recent books are Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett and The Dubious Spectacle: Of Theatre and Other Matters, 1976-2000. Earlier publications include: Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point, To All Appearances: Ideology & Performance and The Audience.
John Mowitt
John Mowitt is Professor in the departments of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and English at the University of Minnesota. Author of numerous texts on the topics of culture, theory and politics his most recent book, Re-Takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages, appeared in 2005 from the University of Minnesota Press. He is also a co-editor of the journal, Cultural Critique. His current research concerns radio as an object of scholarly inquiry.
Ruth Mazo Karras
Ruth Mazo Karras has been a Professor of History at U of M since 2000. She previously taught at Temple Univ. and University of Pennsylvania. She has earned both a BA and PhD from Yale, as well as a MPhil from Oxford. She has authored four books including Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others,From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England, and Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia. Dr. Karras has held fellowships from American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Institute for Advanced Study. Her current research is on marriage and quasi-marital relationships in medieval Europe.