Special Guest Speaker: Professor Lisa S. Starks 

Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Transforming Stories and Reshaping Selves

Lisa S. Starks is Professor of English at the University of South Florida and Associate Editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She specializes in Shakespeare, early modern drama, and adaptation studies. In these fields, her research examines intersections of Shakespeare with cinema, Jewish Shakespeares, Levinasian ethics, sexuality, violence, and trauma, as well as early modern theatre’s engagement with Ovid. Starks’s publications include Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre (Edinburgh UP, 2020), Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays (Palgrave, 2014), and two co-edited volumes on Shakespeare and film. She is currently completing a monograph, Levinas, Shakespeare, and Adaptation (Edinburgh UP), which explores how radical ethics can inform Shakespearean performance and pedagogy across media and cultures.

📅 Date:  October 19th, 2026

🕔 Schedule: Monday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM

📍 Format: Hybrid (in-person & online)

💵 Price: included in the semester registration. walk-ins: suggested donation $20

🏢Location: Northampton Center for the Arts – Barn Door Gallery
                  3 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060
                  Website: nohoarts.org