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Shakespeare and Opera: A presentation by William Germano

In conjunction with the UCI Shakespeare Center and E10: Shakespeare, a lower-division lecture course, William Germano, professor of English at the Coooper Union, will discuss Romeo and Juliet and the operatic tradition.

Free and open to the public.

William Germano is professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and author of Getting It Published: a Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 3/e forth. spring 2016) and From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press, 2/e 2013). He writes a biweekly blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Lingua Franca blog; he has also published essays on writing and publishing in the Chronicle and elsewhere. His scholarly work includes essays on opera, Shakespeare, and cinema. The Tales of Hoffmann (2013) was published in the British Film Institute’s Film Classics series.

His current projects include a guide to revising prose, a cultural history of eye charts, and  Shakespeare at the Opera: A History of Impossible Projects, which considers operatic interpretations of Shakespeare beyond the usual canonical suspects.