Stanning Emily

 A talk at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY:

Lecture: "Stanning Emily: Reading Dickinson and Brontё, Now and Then"

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 7:00pm

 Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall

Mary Loeffelholz, dean of the School of Continuing Education, and Caroline Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities, present this free summer lecture open to the public: 

Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson have both recently been reincarnated for 21st-century "stans" (super fans):  Brontë in the 2022 biopic “Emily” (directed by Francis O’Connor and starring Emma Mackey), Dickinson in the Apple TV+ series “Dickinson" (directed by Alena Smith and starring Hailee Steinfeld) that ran for three seasons from 2019–2021.

Caroline Levine and Mary Loeffelholz will discuss these recent adaptations from their shared perspective as feminist literary scholars educated in the 20th century. Why Emily, why now, who’s watching, and what do these adaptations have to say about the way we read now?