Thursday November 8th
6-8pm
53 Washington Square South, 2nd floor library, King Juan Carlos Center at NYU
Marisa Fuentes is the Presidential Term Chair in African American History and Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and History at Rutgers University—New Brunswick. Her scholarship brings together cultural studies, critical historiography, and black feminist theory to examine gender, sexuality, and slavery in the early modern Atlantic World.
Professor Fuentes is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), which illuminates the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth century Bridgetown, Barbados by interrogating the archive and its historical production to challenge the methods and categories by which historians have analyzed slavery in the Atlantic World, in addition to engaging with larger questions of violence, agency, and gender.
Zeb Tortorici received his Ph.D. in History and is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. His recent monograph, Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain, was published by Duke University Press in 2018. He recently co-edited 2 special issues of Radical History Review on “Queering Archives,” and an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly on the topic of “Trans*historicities.”