Please join MSU's Medieval & Early Modern Studies Seminar for our first talk of the spring semester: Doctoral Candidate Ainan Liu (Princeton University), will be presenting his research in a presentation entitled, "A Chinese Princess in Paris: Racial and Religious Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century France." Wednesday, January 24 at 2:30pm In person (SBUS 214) or over Zoom (register here): http://tinyurl.com/24tt3syp
Ainan Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in French and Italian at Princeton University, where he specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French theater. His recent papers include “Imagining Inverted Worlds in Marivaux’s Experimental Theater” and “A Chinese Princess in Paris: Performing the Exotic to a Willing Audience,” on which his talk at MEMS is based. His research interests lie in interdisciplinary approaches to French theater, in particular the application of social science concepts to literary analysis. His dissertation proposes an anthropological interpretation of early modern French tragedy, and is tentatively titled Barbaric Acts in French Classical Theater (ca. 1635-1755).