Description: Participants examine racial embodiment as it intersects with other forms of embodiment, including age and gender, in seventeenth-century literature and culture. Topics include race thinking in drama, poetry, recipe culture, medical discourse, and twenty-first century adaptations of seventeenth-century figures.

Speakers

Janet Bartholomew, Jackson C

Sujata Iyengar, U of Georgia

Leighla Khansari, Ohio State U, Columbus

Jennifer Park, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

Laura Rosenthal, U of Maryland, College Park

Lauren Shook, Texas Lutheran U

Presider

Lara A. Dodds, Mississippi State U