Date:
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 5:00pm
Location:
Harvard University, Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
Jennifer Oliver is a specialist of sixteenth-century French literature, culture, and thought and the author of Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing: The Direful Spectacle (Oxford UP, 2019). Her current book project, Mineral Matters: Materials, Making, and Early Modern French Literature, examines how early modern writers and craftspeople contemplated the connections and tensions between poetics, craft/technique, and the natural environment.