Join the Glynn Family Honors Program and the Department of English for a lecture on "George Chapman, Edward Coke, & Crooked Justice" by Prof. Jessica Lynn Wolfe (UNC), followed by a reception.
Jessica Lynn Wolfe is the Marcel Bataillon Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. She is a scholar of early-modern poetry and the history of science. She is the former editor of Renaissance Quarterly; and has published the book Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature research on Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica. Her most recent work has been on George Chapman, the translator of Homer who was also closely associated with mathematicians and natural philosophers such as Thomas Harriot.