Reimagining the Baroque: Global Perspectives and New Directions
Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford), Roland Greene (Stanford University), Barbara Nagel Princeton University) and Moderator: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Thu, 4/3 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Chair: | Christina Lee (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) |
| Speakers: | Giuseppe Marcocci (Professor of History, Exeter College, University of Oxford) |
| Roland Greene (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University) | |
| Barbara Nagel (Associate Professor of German, Princeton University) | |
| Moderator: | Nigel Smith (William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, Princeton University) |
About the Speakers:
Roland Greene is a scholar of early modern poetics. He has recently completed a book titled Apollo Barroco: Inceptions of the Baroque in Seventeenth-Century Europe and the Americas. He is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and, since 2019, Director of the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University.
Giuseppe Marcocci is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Oxford. His research has mostly focused on the historical experience of those who lived in the global empires of Spain and Portugal during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Large part of his work is concerned with issues of power relations as diffracted through sources and materials produced at a time of change, instability, and weak legitimacy. He is also strongly interested in reconsidering established interpretations of early modern epistemologies from alternative geographies and perspectives. His latest book The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (2020) traces how overseas exploration transformed historical writing across the Atlantic and beyond. He is currently completing the first monograph on the Lisbon massacre of 1506 and collaborating with Professor Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon) on a book project about visual dissent in Iberian colonial society.
Barbara Nagel is Associate Professor of German at Princeton University; her research focuses on the relation between rhetoric, violence, and affect in German literature and thought, with a historical emphasis on early modernity (Reformation to the Baroque), literature around 1800, and nineteenth-century realism. Barbara works on revising the inherited categories of literary history in the German canon: the Baroque in her first book (Der Skandal der Literalen, Fink, 2012) and realism in her second book (Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond, Bloomsbury, 2019); her current book project “The Mighty Hater: The Metaphysics of Rage in Martin Luther’s Rhetoric” offers a critical counter-reading of the national-literary monument. Barbara is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy.
