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Erika Boeckeler All Experts

Associate Professor of English

Expertise
  • alphabets and alphabetic literature
  • early modern Northern European visual art
  • early Slavic print culture
  • history of the book
  • language theory
  • Renaissance lyric poetry
  • Shakespeare
Contact
e.boeckeler@neu.edu
617.373.7047

Erika Boeckeler for Northeastern

  • The first page of the William Shakespeare play “The Merchant of Venice.” Students have created an online transcription of the play as part of The Cacodemon Shakespeare Project, an effort that was assisted by the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

    Shakespeare, for the 21st century


    When COVID-19 pushed learning online, Shakespeare went with it. A student-led digital version of the playwright’s work, “The Merchant of Venice,” showcases how the themes are still relevant centuries later.

    • by Irvin Zhang and Kaitlyn Budion   August 18, 2020
  • 11/10/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Archivist Giordana Mecagni poses for a photo in the university archives in Snell Library on Nov. 10, 2016.  Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

    Rare book from Northeastern archives selected for ‘illuminated manuscripts’ display


    A Dominican Prayer Book, created in the 15th century, from the Northeastern archives joins manuscripts spanning the 9th to the 17th centuries in “the largest exhibit of pre-1600 manuscripts ever mounted in North America.” Students in a “History of Books” class helped determine the date of the book’s creation, notes Giordana Mecagni, above, head of special collections at Northeastern.

    • by Thea Singer   November 15, 2016
  • 3Qs: Getting to the heart of the matter


    For Valentine’s Day, we asked Northeastern faculty to analyze what the holiday means for businesses and your health, and how it all started in the first place.

    • by News@Northeastern   February 13, 2012

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