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Seminars and Conferences (by invitation)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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2026. “The \u2018pleas of equity\u2019 and \u2018the moral fitness of things\u2019 in Catharine Macaulay’s A Modest Plea for the Property of Copy Right <\/em>(1774)\u201c. Invited Lecture at Theorizing Gender Inequality: Renaissance and Early Modern Perspectives\u201d seminar. 22 May. Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. Ca’ Foscari University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025. “Obedience and Freedom of conscience as paths for Intellectual Inquiry in Early Modern Women\u2019s Spiritual Writings”. Invited Lecture at Philo-Women Seminar”, organized by Natalia Zorilla and Eleonora Alfano. Department of Philosophy. McGill University, Canada. Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025. “Early Modern Women, Prophecy and Political Theology: Transnational Perspectives”. Invited Lecture, organized by Eleonora Cappuccilli. 16 April. Trinity College, University of Toronto. <\/p>\n\n\n

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2024. \u201cIntellectual Freedom in Early Modern Women\u2019s Spiritual Writings: Practice, Methods, and Identities\u201d. Keynote Lecture for GEMS Group for Early Modern Studies Spring Seminar, 15 April. Ghent University, Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024. \u201cThey Call it Love: Seminar with Alva Gotby\u201d. 3 April. F. Ci\u00e8ncies Socials, UAB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023. “Reading Consent in The Lawes Resolution of Women’s Rights<\/em> (1632)\u201d. Invited Lecture for Colloquium on Textuality and Diversity in Early Modern Europe. Organized by Prof. Warren Boutcher. 12 October. History Department, Queen Mary University, London.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2023. \u201cLiterary Genre and the Gender of Intellectual Value in Early Modernity\u201d. Invited Lecture for Research Workshop \u201cWomen in the History of Early Modern Philosophy \u2013 Neglected Figures, Genres and Topics\u201d. Organized by Prof. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, 23 June. History of Philosophy Research Group, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023. \u201cLibertad de consciencia en la literatura spiritual de mujeres de la primera modernidad\u201d. Invited Lecture in research seminar \u2018Discussing Gender and Tracing Women Writers in the Early Modern World\u2019, hosted by Prof. M\u00f2nica Bolufer, 2 May. Departament d\u2019Hist\u00f2ria, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. \u201cMar\u00eda de Jes\u00fas de \u00c1greda y la libertad de amar en Las leyes de la esposa (c. 1637). Invited paper presentation at Humanismos y culturas en el mundo iberoamericano, siglos XVI-XVIII: mujeres, vidas y escrituras. 15 December. Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid, Centro Cultural La Corrala, Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2022. “Cloistered Iconoclasts? Challenging Stereotypes in Early Modern Spiritual Women”. Invited Lecture at the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance. 27 September. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. “Arcangela Tarabotti y Arcangela Biondini: dos estilos reivindicativos desde el g\u00e9nero epistolar”. L’inchiostro invisibile delle donne. 5 May. Biblioteca centrale della regione siciliana, Palermo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021. “Literary Genre and the Gender of Intellectual Value in Early Modernity”. Invited Lecture for Research Workshop “Women in the History of Early Modern Philosophy – Neglected Figures, Genres and Topics”. Organized by prof. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, 10 June. History of Philosophy Research Group, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen. Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021. “Sanar el cos, curar la paraula: auto-edici\u00f3 d’un corpus p\u00fablic d’autora en la senectut”. Invited talk at research seminar Corpo-Pol\u00edtiques de la Mem\u00f2ria. 16 April, 2021. Projecte Menci\u00f3 Encarna Sanahuja YII, UAB. Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020. “Early Modern Women\u2019s Writing in Contemporary Culture”. A Women\u2019s Art Independent Festival, 11 December 2020. Universitat de Roma & La Casa Internazionale delle Donne di Roma. Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019. “Recovering the Value of Women\u2019s Spiritual Writings in the Long Reformation”. Seminar Lecture in “Figures de la spiritualit\u00e9 f\u00e9minine dans les espaces catholiques et protestants (Europe occidentale, XVIe-XVIIIe si\u00e8cles)”, Laboratoire d’\u00c9tudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone. 9 December. Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9, Marseille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019. “Conscience Matters: A Transversal Approach to Early Modern Women\u2019s Prophecy\u201d. Seminar Lecture in “Women of the Book: A Conference on the Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women”, Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance. 7 September. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019. “Hermeneutics of the Feminine: Recovering the Value of Women\u2019s Religious Writings in the Long Reformation”. Keynote talk in seminar “Women as Biblical Interpreters”.19 March. Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018. \u201cTrans-genre Writing in the New Historia”. Keynote debate at the The New Historia Symposium. 17-19 October. The New School University, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018. “A Crisis of Reading: The Culture of Prophecy in the Long Reformation”. Symposium Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CMRS Seminar Series. 6 February. UCLA, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017. “In-depth connections: using the NEWW VRE to enhance interpretation in research about early modern women’s writings”. Seminar on “Teaching Women Writers: exploring NEWW VRE possibilities” and DARIAH Working Group Meeting. 16-18 November. Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. “\u00c8xtasi, ra\u00f3 i consci\u00e8ncia en el context purit\u00e0: el cas de la profecia al segle XVII angl\u00e8s”. Lecture and Round Table (with Jaume Mensa and Rith\u00e9e Cevasco) at Congreso Internacional Cuerpo y \u00c9xtasis. 25 November. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. “Muzio Clementi en el context de la cultura anglesa de la Il.lustraci\u00f3”. Seminar Lecture at “Anglaterra al Voltant d\u2019un Piano. M\u00fasica, Art i Societat en el Pas del Segle XVIII al XIX”. Facultat de Filologia. 15 July. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. “Gendering Invisible Intellectual Value: A Historical Approach”. Seminar ‘The Discourses of Authorial Value and the Gendering of Cultural Production’, 11 January. Universitat de Barcelona – Centre Dona i Literatura, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015. “Biographical Miscellany in the Manuscripts of Ann Yerbury”. Mary Hays International Seminar. Departamento de Filologia Inglesa. 23-25 March. Universidade da Coru\u00f1a, A Coru\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013. \u201cDefending Female Authorship from Speech to Print in Seventeenth-Century Prophetic Writing\u201d. Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar, Department of English. 14 March. Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013. \u201cFrom Sophia to Sappho: The Prophetic Voice in Seventeenth-century Women\u2019s Poetry\u201d. Early Modern Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature. 13 March. Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WINK Research Seminars and Conference Organization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For updated information on WINK Research seminars, workshops and conferences, go to WINK Website<\/a>. European Research Council (ERC-StG: 805436)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024. Co-Organization of Missing Matter Conference: Challenges and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery. 24-25 October. School of Literatures, Languages and Culture, University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. Organization of 32nd SEDERI Conference, Barcelona. “The Textual Spaces of Domestic Life in Early Modern England: Literature, Gender, Economy”. English Department, UAB. 11\u201313 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021. VII Jornada Internacional sobre Traducci\u00f3. “Lletra Inc\u00f2gnita: Traducci\u00f3 i Recepci\u00f3 d’Autores Europees de la Primera Modernitat”. 29-30 November. UPF.<\/p>\n\n\n

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International Conferences (selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024. \u201cTransnational Approaches to Recovering Early Modern Women\u2019s Writing: Circulation, Reception and Genealogies\u201d. The Renaissance Society of America, RSA. Chicago, 21 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024. \u201cIntroducing, Defining and Investigating Textual Misogynies\u201d, Missing Matter Conference: Challenges and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery. School of Literatures, Languages and Culture, University of Edinburgh. 24 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023. \u201cThe Wisdom of Free Love: Maria Jes\u00fas de \u00c1greda\u2019s The Wife\u2019s Rules (c. 1637)\u201d. The Renaissance Society of America, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 9-11 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023. \u201cCrossing Borders in Seventeenth-century Women Spiritual Writings within a European Context\u201d. Early Modern English Culture: Relationships across the Channel. 33rd International SEDERI Conference. Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, 3-5 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. \u201cLife Among These Unknown Revolutionaries\u201d: Traces of Lucy Hutchinson\u2019s
Memoirs in the Spanish and Italian Historiography of the English Revolution”. Conference: Lucy Hutchinson, Revolution and Women\u2019s Writing. Department of English, University of Nottingham, 27-29 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. “Early Modern Spiritual Women as Consumers and Creators of Ephemera”. Roundtable convenor, sponsored by Book History Discipline. Renaissance Society of America. The Marsh’s Library, Dublin. 1 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021. “Genre, Gender, and Print: Can Early Modern Women\u2019s Writing Change the History of the Book?” Roundtable, sponsored by Book History Discipline. Renaissance Society of America, 20 April. Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019. “In the Words of a Sage and Ageing Exegete: An Approach to the Intellectual Contribution of Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible”. Conference: Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century. University of Lincoln. 23 July, Lincoln, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019. “Fashioning Personal Conscience against Sectarian Beliefs in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Prophecy”. Conference: The 65th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. 17-19 March. Sheraton Center. Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017. “The Virile Robe of the Female Sex: The Spanish Reception of Germaine de Sta\u00ebl through Emilia Pardo-Baz\u00e1n’s essays on French Literature”. Conference: Reputations, Legacies, Futures: Jane Austen, Germaine de Sta\u00ebl and their Contemporaries. 13-15 July. Chawton House Library, Hampshire, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. “To give you the words of a learned Spaniard: Los sinsabores del cacao de Indias en el contexto puritano ingl\u00e9s en The Indican Nectar: or a Discourse Concerning Chocolata, <\/em>de Henry Stubbe (1662)”. Conference: Saberes y Ense\u00f1anzas en la Am\u00e9rica Colonial, siglos xvi-xvii. Centro de Estudios de la Am\u00e9rica Colonial, UAB. 21 October, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. “Eminency and Wisdom: Making Sense of ‘Those Qualities which Many Think Most Unlikely to be Found in Women’ in The Woman’s Glorie<\/em> by Thomas Torshell (1645)”. Conference ‘Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures’, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. 8-11 September. University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. “Prophecy and the Language of Isolation in Lady Eleanor Davies’s Tracts”. Conference: The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. 31 March – 2 April. Hynes Convention Center. Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. Chair of Panel “Political Thought and Diplomacy in Early Modern England”. Conference: The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. 1 April. Hynes Convention Center. Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014. “Seventeenth Century Prophecy and the Quest for Authorship”. Conference: Revisiting Early Modern Prophecies. University of Goldsmith. 16-18 June, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014. “In Semi-circle they Sit: The Sybylline Voice in Seventeenth-century Women’s Poetry”. 25th SEDERI Conference, 14-16 May. Universidad de Oviedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013. “Censorship, Rhetoric and Authorship in Dissident’s Women’s Writing”. Conference: Domestic Dissidents, a Re-examination of the Lives, Exchanges and Everday Experiences of Radical Religious Women 1500-1800. 10-11 June. University of Warwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012. \u201cThe Cure of the Kingdome: Defending Female Authorship in Elizabeth Poole\u2019s A Vision (1648). Conference: The Battle for Books: The 20th Annual Conference on the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). 26-29 June. Trinity College, Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011. “A Small Beer and Toast\u201d: Street Politics and Prophetic Performance in Anna Trapnel\u2019s The Cry of a Stone (1654)”. Conference: 35th AEDEAN Conference. 16-18 November. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010. \u201c\u2018I Will Rejoice While I Do Breathe\u2019: Scriptural Departures in Seventeenth-century Prophetic Genres\u201d. Conference: Biblical Women: Reading and Writing Women in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 10-11 September. School of English, Queen\u2019s University, Belfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010. \u201cThe Case for Prophecy: Politics, Gender and Self-representation in Seventeenth-century Prophetic Literature\u201d, Conference: \u201cPorts, Piers and Roads: Self and World in Early Modern Culture\u201d, Faculty of Arts, Porto University, 22-24 April. Porto, Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010. \u201cThe Fox-man Politician and Other Species: Margaret Cavendish\u2019s Description of the New World, called The Blazing World (1668)\u201d. Conference: Women Telling Nations. 11-13 November. Facultad de Letras, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009. \u201cThe Cry of a Virgin: The Gender of Seventeenth-century Prophetic Genres\u201d. 3rd International NEWW-Conference: \u201cTheorizing Narrative Genre and Gender\u201d. 15-17 May. Ruhr Universit\u00e4t Bochum, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009. \u201cVarieties of Gender Representation in Seventeenth-century Prophetic Genres.\u201d Conference: \u201cRegion, Religion and Early Modern Literature\u201d, 1-3 April. Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London and the Society for Renaissance Studies, London, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008. \u201cLaughing Babies and Crying Medusas: Motherhood in Sex and the City.\u201d Participation in Round Table \u201cGender Studies\u201d at 32nd AEDEAN Conference. 12-14 November. Universidad de Les Illes Balears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008. \u201cYou the Meek Virgin: an Approach to Eleanor Davies\u2019 Prophetic Texts\u201d, SEDERI 19th Conference, 23-25 April. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008. \u201cCos, esperit i paraula en el m\u00f3n de la Reforma.\u201d Conference: Cossos i \u00e0nimes: esperit i mat\u00e8ria al Renaixement Europeu. 10 March. Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007. \u201cGatty Bell\u2019s Magical Awakening and Other Wonders: A Gendered Analysis of James Hogg\u2019s The Three Perils of Woman (1823)\u201d. Conference: From Ettrick to Empire: New Perspectives in James Hogg\u2019s Studies. 7-9 August. University of Stirling, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007. \u201cFor the Progress of Women: An Approach to Womanhood in the \u2018New Woman\u2019 Print Culture of 1890s Britain\u201d. Conference: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900. 20-21 January. English Faculty, Oxford University, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007. \u201cBorn in the Streets: Violence, Gangsterism and Power in Gangs of New York\u201d, 31st AEDEAN Conference. 14-17 November. Universidad de La Coru\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007. \u201cCity of Flesh, Body of Mortar: The Body as City in Peter Ackroyd\u2019s London, The Biography\u201d, Conference: I Congreso Internacional de los Textos del Cuerpo. 26-30 March. Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007. \u201cTransgressions of the Spirit: Voices of Resistance in Katherine Evans\u2019 and Sarah Cheevers\u2019 A Short Relation of their Sufferings\u201d, SEDERI 18th Conference. 7-9 March. Universidad de C\u00e1diz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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