The Imago Dei in Sidney and Shakespeare | Doctor Michael Mack

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This lecture was given at Hillsdale College on April 22, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute conference "Christology in Literature." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Mack is an Associate Professor of English at the Catholic University of America. He specializes in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, and his research interests include Shakespeare, sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry, and Renaissance poetic theory. Dr. Mack has published a study of Sir Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry and he is currently working on a book provisionally and pretentiously entitled Shakespeare and the Human Condition. He regularly teaches Shakespeare at the undergraduate and graduate levels and the Renaissance humanities course in the University Honors Program. Dr. Mack has served as Director of the University Honors Program, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Michael Mack received his A.B. from Harvard University, where his concentration was Economics, and his Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He has been at CUA since 1997.

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1:11.6	Dr. Michael Matt received his AB from Harvard University with a concentration in economics,
1:16.6	and his PhD in English from Columbia University.
1:20.6	Since 1997, he has been an associate professor in the English department at Catholic University of America.
1:26.6	Dr. Mack specializes in Shakespeare, 16th and 17th century English poetry,
1:32.3	Renaissance Poetics, and philosophical and theological backgrounds for Renaissance literature.
1:38.3	He has designed numerous courses for his university,
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