CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Department of English will host Sarah Skwire as the as part of its American Shakespeare Center’s visit to campus.

Skwire is a senior fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., a nonprofit educational foundation, and is the author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition. Her lecture, “Political Economics in Henry V,” will take place at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the Sykes Common Room, located on Park Street across from the Brewer Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

Skwire has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy. Her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Her work on literature and economics has also appeared in Newsweek, The Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and she is an occasional lecturer for Institute for Humane Studies and Students For Liberty. Her poetry has appeared in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and The Vocabula Review.

Skwire graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago.

For more information, contact 229-5125 or visit www.stlawu.edu/english.