10/21 Faculty Colloquium – Andrew McKendry

2026-10-13

臺大外文系學術演講
NTU DFLL Faculty Colloquium

Making the Measures of Man: “Disability” in Milton, Bunyan, and the Long Eighteenth Century

Speaker:
Dr. Andrew McKendry (Nord University)

Moderator:
Dr. Alexander Lash賴煦助理教授 (National Taiwan University)

Time:
15:30-17:00, October 21, 2026

Venue:
B208, Humanities Hall, NTU (臺大人文館B208室)

Speaker Bio

Andrew McKendry is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nord University, Norway, where he leads the Humanities, Education & Culture Research Group. He specializes in the historical relationship between religion and disability, and he is author of Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His work has appeared in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Studies and Studies in Romanticism, as well as in edited collections including Mary Wollstonecraft in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Global Bunyan and Visual Art (Bloomsbury, 2025), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English, 1700–1900 (Oxford University Press, 2027).

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures · National Taiwan University