Organized by Juliet Shields (English)

The Early Modern Research Group (Emerge) provides a crossdisciplinary forum for exploring the meanings and histories of modernity. During the 2008-09 academic year, Emerge will run two complementary programs: a series of formal lectures by visiting scholars and an informal works-in-progress group through which UW faculty and graduate students in a range of disciplines can share their research. Together, these programs will examine the concept of modernity from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives as a state that emerges at different times in different places. The group will trace the genealogies of modernity across the shifting spatial boundaries of nations and empires in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and across the often debatable historical periodizations that vary with these boundaries.

Poesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds

Leah Middlebrook
Comparative Literature and Romance Languages, University of Oregon

Monday, November 17, 2008
4:00 pm
Communications 220
Reception to follow

Leah Middlebrook is an associate professor in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. Her book, Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain, is forthcoming from the Pennsylvania State University Press.