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17th Century

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Engraving of a passage from Roman author Virtruvius, featuring the philosopher Aristippus

The Roles of Fiction in Early Modern Philosophy

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, History, Philosophy

People

Susan Gaylard stands behind a red bicycle and in front of a bookcase wearing a light-green jacket and purple sweater.

Susan Gaylard (she/her/hers)

Susan Gaylard completed her undergraduate work in her native South Africa, before studying at Berkeley and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Prof. Gaylard focuses on the early modern period, in particular the intersection between literature and material culture.

16th Century, 17th Century, Cultural Studies, Italian Studies, Language and Literature, Visual Culture
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Jeffrey Todd Knight (he/him/his)

Jeffrey Todd Knight's teaching and research focus on early modern English literature, particularly Shakespeare, and the history of books and reading.

16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Digital Humanities, Language and Literature
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Geoffrey Turnovsky (he/him/his)

Geoffrey Turnovsky specializes in the literary and cultural history of early modern France and Europe, with an emphasis on print culture, early modern media, the profession of authorship, and on readers and publics in the 17th and 18th centuries.

17th Century, 18th Century, Cultural Studies, French & Italian Studies, History, Language and Literature
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Guillaume Tourniaire (he/him/his)

Guillaume Tourniaire was a 2017-2018 Mellon Collaborative Fellows for Reaching New Publics. He has taught courses in theater history and analysis at the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, and Catholic University.

17th Century, 20th Century, History, Visual Culture
Andreas P. Bassett stands in front of a large shrubbery while wearing a dark jacket blue shirt and tie.

Andreas P. Bassett (he/him/his)

Andreas P. Bassett is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, where he studies early modern literature and book history.

16th Century, 17th Century, Digital Humanities, Humanities, Pedagogy, Textual Studies
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Sarah Nickel Moore (she/her/hers)

Sarah Moore is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, where she studies late medieval romance and early modern drama.

16th Century, 17th Century, Digital Humanities, Humanities, Pedagogy, Textual Studies
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Colin Marshall (he/him/his)

17th Century, 18th Century, Philosophy