Symposium on the Book: "Remediation: Understanding Old Media"

András Kiséry is Associate Professor of English at The City College of New York (CUNY). He has published on early modern textual and political cultures, including _Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England_ (OUP, 2016), and the volume he co-edited with Allison Deutermann, _Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature_ (Manchester UP, 2013). He is now writing a book about media and remediation in early modern England. An essay taken from this project just came out in the Summer 2024 issue of _Critical Inquiry_. With David Nee, he also coedited the Winter 2023 special issue of _MLQ_ on old new media and 20th-century humanities. With Jane Raisch, he is editing Christopher Marlowe’s works for the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series. In addition to his early modern work, he is also collaborating on a Digital Humanities project on the sociology of literary translations in the 19th and 20th centuries. He writes: "We know Shakespeare’s works as printed books, but reading them sometimes also offers us glimpses of other textual media. While we don’t get to see Shakespeare’s original manuscripts, we do learn about various forms of writing that, around 1600, print was striving to mediate, in England as well as elsewhere in Europe. My talk will explore some of these remediations and show how their efforts to create a sense of immediacy in presenting their content to the reader brought into focus, and also defamiliarized, the medium of print itself."

Sponsored by Willson Center (UGA Symposium on the Book), UGA Libraries, and the UGA Department of English.