Ross Knecht, 'Reproduction, Affect and Pedagogy in Shakespeare's Sonnets'

Ross Knecht is Assistant Professor of English at Emory University, and a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His research focuses on early modern literature, critical theory and the history of philosophy, and he is currently completing a book on the intersection of emotion and education in sixteenth-century English literature. This paper, ‘Reproduction, Affect and Pedagogy in Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ explores the representation of biological reproduction and poetic memorialisation in Shakespeare. It was delivered at a conference on ‘Art and Affect’ at The University of Queensland in July 2017.