John H. Pollack
John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections. He is also responsible for the Furness Shakespeare Library, which is part of the Kislak Center.
John holds a PhD in English from Penn and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages; colonial writings from New France; and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education.
Professor Roger Chartier will speak on Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, its early modern editions and translations, and the changing meanings of the key term sprezzatura. Professor Chartier will also show and examine early editions of Castiglione from the Kislak Center's rare book collections.
Roger Chartier is Annenberg Visiting Professor in History at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor at the College de France.
This event is organized by the Center for Italian Studies.
