Senior Associate Dean of Yale College and Dean of Academic Affairs Mark J. Schenker presents "The World of Downton Abbey," a lecture which will illustrate how social, political, and literary events in England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries shaped the world depicted in the popular PBS series. Join us in the Kingsley Room of the Southbury Public Library on Wednesday, June 3rd from 2-3:30pm. Registration is required; please call 203-262-0626 ext. 130 to register. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library. This program is part of the Southbury Public Library’s summer series, and it is sponsored by the Charles H. & Ella Emery Rutledge Fund.
Mark J. Schenker has been at Yale College since 1990. A former lecturer in the English Department, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University with a concentration in 19th-century and early 20th-century English literature.
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