Please join us for the 17th roundtable featuring the exciting work of advanced graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines, exploring issues of general interest to scholars of Renaissance and early modern studies.
The roundtable will take place on Friday, December 12th, at 4 pm at Gayle Karch Cook Center, Maxwell Hall, Room 122. There will be brief presentations from each panelist, followed by Q&A, and then we will continue our conversation at the reception in the Grand Hall.
The panelists are:
Giada Mirelli (Spanish and Portuguese), “Writing as a Spiritual Quest: A Common Thread in Early Modern to Contemporary Spanish Women Authors”
Dissertation project: “Seek with Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Longitudinal Study on a Woman’s Way of Perfection”
Yuyuan Zhang (Religious Studies / History), “‘What Religion Are the Chinese?’ Answers From the Jesuit Figurists, a Natural Theologian, and a Skepticist in Early Modern Europe.”
Dissertation Project on early modern European receptions of Chinese religions, ethics, and history.
Megan Vinson (English), “Shakespeare’s Cyborg.”
Dissertation project: “Material Entanglements: Agency and the Body on Shakespeare’s Stage”
This will be a great chance to meet faculty and graduate students working in other disciplines.
The event is made possible with generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Departments of English, Religious Studies, French and Italian, and Spanish and Portuguese.