John Yargo delivered one of the annual NextGenPlen presentations at the annual Shakespeare Association of America conference. According to the SAA website, “NextGenPlen papers are selected via an anonymous screening process, with precedence given to those introducing new topics, displaying fresh thinking about traditional issues, and demonstrating diverse approaches.”
His talk, titled “Did Environmental Catastrophe Have a Renaissance?,” is forthcoming in Shakespeare Studies (2023). Also presenting NextGenPlen papers were Beatrice Bradley (University of Chicago), Evyan Dale Gainey (Columbia University), Hannah Korell (McGill University) and Bailey Sincox (Harvard University).
Last month, Yargo also successfully defended his dissertation, Saturnine Ecologies: Environmental Catastrophe in the Early Modern World, 1542-1688, under the supervision of Jane Hwang Degenhardt.