Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 Nov 2011
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University
Category(ies) No Categories
Columbia University
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Early Modern Seminar
Gerard Passannante, University of Maryland, “Little Big World: Disaster, Philology, and the Magic of Small Things”
Gerard Passannante is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland. He has received numerous fellowships, including the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, to support his work on the intersections of philology, literature, and natural science in early modern England and continental Europe. He has published articles on Spenser, Montaigne, Bacon, and Gabriel Harvey, among others, and his monograph, *The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition,* is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press (December 2011). His talk will be taken from his current project, on analogic and metonymic epistemology in the early modern period.