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PARTICIPANTS
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 Mathilde Bombart (Department of French) received her Doctoratfrom the Université Paris III and specializes in seventeenth century French literature, with a focus on the history of publication and readership. She is the author of Guez de Balzac et la querelle des Lettres: Écriture, polémique et critique dans la France du premier XVII e siècle (Paris: Champion, 2007), the co-editor of Lectures à clé (XVI e-XIX e siècles), a special issue of Littératures classiques 54 (2005), and the co-editor of Antoine Furetière, La Nouvelle allégorique, ou histoire des derniers troubles arrivés au royaume d’Eloquence (Toulouse: Société de Littératures Classiques, 2004). She is currently working on a study of livres à clé in the seventeenth century and on the shaping of literary history as an academic discipline from the eighteenth century to the present.
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 Martin Lin (Department of Philosphy) received his PhD from the University of Chicago and comes to Rutgers from the University of Toronto. He specializes in the philosophy of the seventeenth century and has published a series of articles on Spinoza: his concepts of teleology and human action; of akrasia, or the succumbing of passion to reason; of substance, attribute, and mode; of memory and personal identity; of metaphysics and desire; his arguments for the existence of God.
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 Benjamin Paul (Department of Art History) received his PhD from Harvard University with a thesis on Tintoretto’s representations of the Apocalyptic Woman. He specializes in Italian Renaissance art, focusing on Venetian architecture and painting of the sixteenth century. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome and is currently finishing a book on the architecture and decoration of the Benedictine reform convent of SS. Cosma e Damiano on the Giudecca. He has also published on the contemporary Roman photographer Tano D’Amico and the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.
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 Henry S. Turner (Department of English) received his PhD from Columbia University and comes to Rutgers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in the drama of Jonson, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries, in the history of literary criticism, the history of economic thought, and the history of science. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts (Oxford, 2006) and of Shakespeare’s Double Helix (Continuum, 2008). He is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002) and is currently writing a book on the history of the “corporation” as a political entity in early modern England and beyond.
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 Laura Weigert (Department of Art History) received her PhD from Northwestern University and comes to Rutgers from Reed College. She specializes in Northern European art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, focusing on the interaction between visual images and their architectural and ritual settings, as well as on the study of manuscript illumination, prints, panel painting, and textiles. She is the author of Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity (Cornell, 2004), the co-author of Judith et Holopherne (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2003) and the co-editor of La Vie de Saint Etienne et la cathédrale d’Auxerre (Auxerre: Presse du Musée Saint-Germain, 2000). She is currently writing a book on the relationship between large-scale visual imagery and theatrical performance entitled Images in Action: The Theatricality of Franco-Flemish Art. |
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