
Reimagining the Baroque: Global Perspectives and New Directions
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Thu, 4/3 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building – A17
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Chair: | Christina Lee (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) |
Speakers: | Barbara Nagel (Associate Professor of German, Princeton University) |
Giuseppe Marcocci (Professor of History, Exeter College, Oxford University) | |
Roland Greene (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University) | |
Discussant: | Nigel Smith (William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, Princeton University) |
About the Speakers:
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.
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