Please join me in congratulating Allison Stedman, who has just been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities full-year faculty fellowship for her new book project, The Mind-Body Connection in Early Modern France (1580-1735). Félicitations !
"NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both."
Congratulations to Christopher Semk for his book, Playing the Martyr: Theater and Theology in Early Modern France, which has just been published with Bucknell University Press. Félicitations!
Details on the book are copied below: Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical poetics. Engaging with a broad corpus of religious plays, poetic treatises, devotional literature, and contemporary theory, Semk shows that religion was a vital interlocutor in early modern discussions concerning the definition of verisimilitude, the nature and purpose of spectacle, the mechanics of acting, and the position of the spectator. Well researched and persuasively argued, Playing the Martyr makes the case for a more complicated approach to the relationship between religion and literature, namely, one that does not treat religion as a theme deployed within literary works, but as an active player in literary invention. Indeed, it makes the case for a serious reconsideration of the role that religion plays in the development of modern, secular literary forms.
Félicitations à Francis Assaf d’avoir été nommé professeur émérite à l’Université de Géorgie ! Félicitations, Francis !
Faith Beasley wishes to announce to our community that the registration period is now officially open for our next conference, to take place at Dartmouth College from November 10-13, 2016 in Hanover, NH. Please note that the pre-registration rate is valid through September 15. You can access the registration page by clicking the "2016 Annual Conference" link on our SE17 homepage, or through the following link.
The conference program, details regarding accomodations and travel, and other helpful information are available on the 2016 Annual Conference webpage: http://se17.bowdoin.edu/SE17/conference/2016.
