Oct. 8, 2002--James Shapiro, author and professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, will speak on “Jessica, the Jew’s Daughter,” at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8, in 123 Memorial Hall.

Author of “Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare” (1991), “Shakespeare and the Jews” (1995) and “Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play” (2002), Shapiro is working on “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.”

Shapiro has co-edited the “Columbia Anthology of British Poetry” and has served as acting associate editor of the “Columbia History of British Poetry.” Shapiro won the Bainton Prize for the best book on the 16th century and has won awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

A reception under the dome of Memorial Hall follows the lecture, which is free and open to the public, For more information, call 831-2361.