Will Steffen is an assistant professor of English at American International College in Springfield, MA. He earned his PhD from UMass Amherst in 2018. His dissertation, Globalizing Nature on the Shakespearean Stage, won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize at the 2020 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. His forthcoming book, Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage, (April 2023, Oxford University Press) positions the early modern stage as a key resource in evaluating the role of human agency in the narrative about global climate change.
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Earlier Event: December 1
Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
Later Event: March 21
Salt, Water, & Stone: The Ecology of Art in Renaissance VeniceI