The Renaissances Graduate Research Series: "The Early Modern Oceanic Imaginary"
Speaker(s): Luis Rodríguez-Rincón and Steven Mentz
Dear members of theRenaissancescommunity,
Please join us tomorrow, January 23rd for the first event of ourRenaissancesGraduate Research Series, which stages conversations between advanced Ph.D. students at èצӰ and interlocutors of their work.
Please note that the event will take placeover dinner, 6-8pmon Monday, January 23, in Pigott Hall, Room 216.
For our Winter Event,LuisRodríguez-Rincón,Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literatureat èצӰ, andSteven Mentz, Professor of English Literature at Saint John’s University, will discussLuis's dissertation:"The Early Modern Oceanic Imaginary."
Luis'sprojectdefines the intellectual horizons under which fantasies of liquefaction (metamorphosis into water) interested poets such as Camões, Ronsard, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Edmund Spenser. He argues liquefaction canbe seen as a lyric responseto 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 willpresent his essaytitled “Seep” forVeer Ecology, which employs eco-theoretical practice toconnectEdmund Spenser’s Elizabethan verse epicThe Faerie Queene(1594) and Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern novelInherent Vice(2009).
Both will briefly present theirworks in progress(attached).These presentations willset up points of intersection between the two projectsand we will then open the floor to discussion and questions.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the event!
Please RSVP to:leogvell [at] stanford.edu (leogvell[at]stanford[dot]edu)ǰhsd [at] stanford.edu (hsd[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Leo Grao Velloso Damato Oliveira,Ph.D. Student, èצӰ
Hannah Smith-Drelich,Ph.D. Candidate, èצӰ
Roland Greene,Professor of English and Comparative Literature