How could we better employ our mind, or place our labour, or spend our time, or pass our pilgrimage in this World, than in scholastical occupations?
Plenary Speakers
Jonathan SellUniversidad de Alcalá (Spain)
Jonathan P. A. Sell is Full Professor of English Literature at the Universidad de Alcalá in Spain, where he teaches literary analysis, history, and literary translation.
Sell’s chief field of research is early modern literature. He is author of Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560–1613 (Ashgate, 2006), Conocer a Shakespeare (Laberinto, 2012) and a two-part essay on the Shakespearean sublime, Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos (both Routledge, 2022), winner of the AEDEAN and ESSE book prizes. A collection of essays, The Universal Shakespeare Creed, co-edited with Marta Cerezo Moreno, is forthcoming (Routledge). Current lines of enquiry include the theological background to Enlightenment bardolatry and the role of misreading in literary criticism. Sell has also published on contemporary British writers. He is author of Allusion, Identity and Community in Recent British Writing (Universidad de Alcalá, 2010), editor of Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co-editor, with Daniela Rogobete and Alan Munton, of The Silent Life of Things (Cambridge Scholars, 2015). In addition, he has edited and translated Florence Farmborough’s La vida y la gente de la España nacional and Eleonora Tennant’s Viaje por España (both Espuela de Plata, 2017). |