POSTPONED Queen of Infinite Space: Actualizing Infinity in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and Observations on Experimental Philosophy

16th century female portrait

Date and Time

October 9, 2025
06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT

Location

Barker Center, Room 114

WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

 

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.

 

SPEAKER: Rachel Trubowitz, University of New Hampshire

Rachel Trubowitz is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire-Durham. She is the author of Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2012), as well as the principal investigator in the NEH-funded “Milton and Mathematics” project. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Her chapter, 'The People of Asia and with them the Jews: Asia, Israel, and England in Milton's Writings,' in Milton and the Jews, ed. Douglas Brooks (Cambridge, 2008), won the James Holly Hanford Award for Best Essay from the Milton Society of America.