Talk by Dr. Goran Stanivukovic



 Our Faculty Author Series continues next week and it's the English Department's turn this time. 

Dr. Goran Stanivukovic will be here to discuss his latest work, Knights in Arms: prose romance, masculinity and eastern European trade in early modern England, 1565-1655.


This is a book which should be of interest to a lot of people.  Luckily, everyone is invited to attend:

Tuesday, November 10 at 3 o'clock
in Room LI135 (1st floor of the Library)

And refreshments will be served.

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