Professor Tim Wandling Presents at international Lord Byron Conference

On Independence Day in the U.S., Sonoma State English Professor Tim Wandling will be in Greece presenting a paper at the International Byron Conference, marking the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. Wandling will present his paper, “The Ends of Eternity:  Byron, Auden and ‘Gay and Witty Muses,’” at the conference, being held July 1-8 in Athens and Messolonghi, Greece. 

Wandling said the paper draws on content included in his fall junior seminar course, “Literature Now and Then: Queer Genealogies,” which examines queer and closeted voices in 19th-century poetry.

A specialist in poetry and politics, Wandling is working on a book about Romanticism-era poets and singer-songwriters of the 1970s.