Date/Time
Date(s) - 14 Apr 2016
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
The CUNY Graduate Center
Category(ies) No Categories
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will meet on Thursday, April 14th in Room C201 at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. The meeting will begin with wine and cheese at 6 p.m.; the talk will start at 6:15. Afterwards, all are welcome to join us for supper at a local restaurant.
Abby Zanger will speak on “Looking Backward and Forward at Publishing on Early Modern Women and Gender: The Impact and Implications of Ashgate’s Series on Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.”
Abby Zanger has been active in the field of gender studies as co-editor of the Ashgate Press series “Women and Gender in the Early Modern World” since 1999 and in various positions in the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, including secretary since 2012, She is author of Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power (Stanford) as well as numerous essays on topics situated at the cusp of the fields of literature, history, visual studies, and gender theory. Most recently she has published articles and book chapters on topics such as women and iconography, witchcraft and placebos, the politics of the marriage plot, allegories of royal procreation, and the relations between print and theatre. She is currently working on two book projects, one on early modern political allegory and the other on passages to print, both concerning early modern France. She has held academic appointments in French at Harvard University, Bowdoin College, Boston University, Duke University and The University of Iowa; in Comparative literature at Yale University; and in history at Tufts University.
SSWR meetings are co-sponsored with Women’s Studies, the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences, and the Renaissance Certificate Program.