Stories Worth Telling: a Roundtable on Biographical Writing
Friday December 2nd
11:30am-1:30pm EST on Zoom
Organized and moderated by: Esther Liberman Cuenca (University of Houston-Victoria/Princeton IAS)
Featuring: Theresa Earenfight (Seattle University), María Americo (St. Peter’s University, Jersey City), and Pura Fernández (CSIC/NYU)
Esther Liberman Cuenca is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston-Victory and currently a junior faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the 2022-23 academic year. She is writing a “biography” of urban customary law in medieval England and has published on a variety of pedagogical and popular culture-related topics, including music and film.
Theresa Earenfight is Professor of History and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Seattle University. Her work focuses on women, gender, and political power with a focus on queens and queenship medieval Europe. She is the author of a textbook, Queenship in Medieval Europe, and two monographs, one on Queen Maria of Castile and the other on Catherine of Aragon.
Maria Americo is assistant professor of history at Saint Peter’s University. Her work focuses on the history and material culture of ancient and medieval science, the Greco-Arabic intellectual tradition, and postcolonial and gender studies. Her most recent publication is entitled “Theory as an Inclusive Pedagogical Tool: Postcolonial Theory and the Greco-Arabic Translation Movement in Today’s Ancient History Classrooms.”
Pura Fernández is Research Professor at the Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), General Editor of Editorial CSIC and Deputy Vice President for the Scientific Culture and Citizen Science since 2019. She has directed various group research projects on the modern history of publishing and reading; the professionalization of women writers; transatlantic cultural and publishing networks; and the intersections of literature, scientific discourse, and public policy. The results have been published in numerous edited volumes and academic journals. She has authored, edited, or coedited 14 books and is a member of the Advisory Board of 25 international academic journals and series of books from Spain, France, USA, Argentina and Mexico. Also, she is the creator of the website Ibero-American Editors and Publishers – EDI-RED. She was Visiting Professor at Columbia University in 2015 and is currently Chair of KJCC at NYU.