Kempf Lecture Speaker Series: Alani Hicks-Bartlett - “Extraordinary Movement: from the “siege tremblant” to the Great Passage in Petrarch, Montaigne, and Cervantes”

Please join the Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture by Alani Hicks-Bartlett (Brown University) on April 8 at 4pm.

This presentation considers how Petrarch’s, Montaigne’s, and Cervantes’s representations of movement and instability, both corporeal and otherwise, help elucidate their attempts at “self-fashioning.”  An exploration of how these authors reprioritize the “conditioning” of the self, bodily variance, and extraordinary movement through a disability-informed approach also deepens our understanding of their engagement with common writerly tropes that are often more simply regarded as stylized trends or rhetorical sensibilities, but which are constitutive of a premodern authorial disability identity.