William Hogarth’s art combined with social criticism.
Our Second Workshop will be on October 15th at 3:00 in the CASE E422 (4th Floor). We will have a wonderful speaker, Professor John Stevenson, Department of English.  Before his talk, we will have a reception to socialize with light refreshments.

Reception: 3:00 PM 
Talk Begins: 3:30 PM

October 15th, 2025 | 3:00 PM | CASE E422 (4th Floor)

Please register to attend here: https://forms.office.com/r/r4crXebTLp

A virtual attendance option will be available & the recording will be posted after the event.

Following a few preliminary background statements regarding William Hogarth’s (1697 – 1764) background as a painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer, Professor Stevenson’s presentation will focus on one group of Hogarth’s paintings:  “Marriage a-la-Mode.”  We as observers get to see a set of six paintings that depict the decline and self-destruction of the horrors that ensue when someone marries for money..  The paintings are elaborate and rich in depicting many many touches of what the world of the the British wealthy was like in the mid-eighteenth century.  So, John Stevenson wants to focus his talk on this set of paintings—they tell a great (and horrific) story and  make for great conversation, so they will be my primary focus.  

Speaker Bio, Professor John Stevenson, Department of English,
“John Stevenson has been a faculty member at Boulder since 1982, and is a scholar of British literature of the eighteenth century, and the author of two books, including most recently, The Real History of Tom Jones (2005), which won the Eugene Kayden Book Prize in 2007. His articles on the eighteenth- and nineteenth century novel have appeared in such journals as PMLA and ELH; he has also presented his work at conferences many times, both nationally and internationally. He is a former winner of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award. He was Chair of the English Department (1996-2004), and served as Interim Director of the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (2001-02). He joined the Graduate School as Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education in 2005 and was Dean of the Graduate School from 2009-16. John’s degrees include a BA summa cum laude, Duke University, 1975, and a PhD, University of Virginia, 1983. John has served as the director of the Program for Writing & Rhetoric since July 2022”.