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• Region: Atlantic World; Britain; Europe; United States
• Time: 18th Century
• Theme: British Literature; Cultural History; History of Gender and Sexuality; Music

Alex Creighton is a sixth year graduate student in English at Harvard University, with...

• Regions: Atlantic World; Britain; England; Europe; France
• Times: 17th century; 18th century; 19th century
• Themes: British Literature; Cultural History; French Literature; History of Art and Architecture; History of the Body; History of the Book; History of...

• Region: Atlantic World; Britain; Iberia; North America; Pacific World
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: British Literature; Colonialism; Cultural History; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Science...

• Regions: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Europe; Latin America; North America
• Times: 15th to 17th centuries
• Themes: Colonialism; Folklore; History of Art and Architecture; History of the Body; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality...

• Region(s): Europe
• Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme(s): History of Science; History of Medicine; History of Gender and Sexuality

   

Katharine Park’s research and teaching focuses on the history of...

Region: China
Time: 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Theme: Chinese Literature, Early Modern Drama, History of the Body, History of Gender and Sexuality, Intellectual History

Wai-yee Li teaches Chinese literature at Harvard University. Her research...

• Region: Atlantic World; Europe; North America
• Time: 18th Century
• Theme: German Literature; Colonialism; Cultural History; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Religion

Anca's research interests bring to the surface the voices and stories...

Courtney is broadly interested in early modern disability and medicine. Her Master’s thesis focused on an underutilized religious commentary written by a blind woman in 16th century Germany. The main purpose of her thesis was to better understand the...

Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...

• Region: North America
• Time: 16th Century to 21th Century
• Theme: Religion; American History; Colonial History; Gender

Education

• BA, Harvard University
• PhD, Yale University

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Catherine Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the...