Shifting the Paradigm—Cavendish and Milton on Infinity: Literature, Mathematics, Religion, and Politics

16th century female portrait

Date and Time

October 8, 2026
05:30PM EDT

Location

Barker Center, Room 133

WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

SPEAKER: Rachel Trubowitz, University of New Hampshire

Rachel Trubowitz is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Oxford UP, 2021) and co-editor with Marissa Greenberg of Milton’s Moving Bodies (Northwestern UP,  2024). Milton’s Moving Bodies received the 2024 Irene Samuel Award from the Milton Society of America.  Her new monograph, Milton and Mathematics, is under review at Cambridge University Press.