SASAH Speakers' Series presents Bruce Holsinger

"Taste, Tincture, Temptation: A Medieval Poetics of Wine"

Bruce Holsinger teaches in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the literature and culture of the medieval world, with additional interests in historical fiction, modern and contemporary theory, the history of the book, and premodern religious cultures. His most recent nonfiction book is On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age (Yale University Press). Holsinger also serves as editor of the quarterly journal, New Literary History.

In addition to his academic work, Holsinger is a celebrated fiction author, with works including The Displacements and The Gifted School (both from Riverhead). His books have been recognized with the Colorado Book Award, the John Hurt Fisher Prize, the Philip Brett Award, the John Nicholas Brown Prize, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and others. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications and he has been profiled on NPR's Weekend Edition, Here & Now, and Marketplace. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Bruce Holsinger has been invited by SASAH Teaching Fellow Kyle Gervais.