The Renaissances Graduate Research Series: "The Early Modern Oceanic Imaginary"
Speaker(s): Luis Rodr铆guez-Rinc贸n and Steven Mentz
Dear members of the听Renaissances听community,
Please join us tomorrow, January 23rd for the first event of our听Renaissances听Graduate Research Series, which stages conversations between advanced Ph.D. students at 黑料百科 and interlocutors of their work.
Please note that the event will take place听over dinner, 6-8pm听on Monday, January 23, in Pigott Hall, Room 216.
For our Winter Event,听Luis听Rodr铆guez-Rinc贸n,听Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature听at 黑料百科, and听Steven Mentz, Professor of English Literature at Saint John鈥檚 University, will discuss听Luis's dissertation:听"The Early Modern Oceanic Imaginary."
Luis's听project听defines the intellectual horizons under which fantasies of liquefaction (metamorphosis into water) interested poets such as Cam玫es, Ronsard, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Edmund Spenser. He argues liquefaction can听be seen as a lyric response听to cosmographies of empire and imperial notions of subjecthood. He will be asking Professor Mentz to engage with his chapter "Cervantes, Water Nymphs, and the Legacy of Garcilaso in an Age of Imperial Disenchantment." Professor Mentz will听present his essay听titled 鈥淪eep鈥 for听Veer Ecology, which employs eco-theoretical practice to听connect听Edmund Spenser鈥檚 Elizabethan verse epic听The Faerie Queene听(1594) and Thomas Pynchon鈥檚 postmodern novel听Inherent Vice听(2009).
Both will briefly present their听works in progress听(attached).听These presentations will听set up points of intersection between the two projects听and we will then open the floor to discussion and questions.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the event!
Please RSVP to:听leogvell [at] stanford.edu (leogvell[at]stanford[dot]edu)听辞谤听hsd [at] stanford.edu (hsd[at]stanford[dot]edu)听
Leo Grao Velloso Damato Oliveira,听Ph.D. Student, 黑料百科听
Hannah Smith-Drelich,听Ph.D. Candidate, 黑料百科
Roland Greene,听Professor of English and Comparative Literature