When
Where
The Early Books Lecture Series was established at the University of Arizona by Dr. Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor of German Studies, in partnership with University Libraries Special Collections. For 20 years, University of Arizona scholars and Special Collections have invited the community to explore rare books, held by Special Collections, that provide primary resource materials for research, and are open for students, faculty, staff, and visitors to access.
The lectures are free, open to the public, and held in the Special Collections Reading Room and online via Zoom, 6pm to 8pm.
Faith S. Harden, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, College of Humanities
Associate Professor Harden is in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory, the Division for Late Medieval & Reformation Studies, and the American Literary Translators Association. Her research and teaching center on the literary and intellectual history of early modern transatlantic Spain, particularly the picaresque novel, autobiographical fiction and life writing, and the work of women playwrights and poets.
Harden's first book, Arms and Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain, explores gendered representations of honor, violence, and literary self-fashioning in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century soldiers' memoirs. She also edited a monographic issue for the journal eHumanista on Military Lives in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World. Current projects include an English translation of the picaresque novel Estebanillo González and a monograph on the literary and cultural significance of animal imagery in peninsular and colonial Spanish texts.
Additional lectures
Early Books Lecture Series XX: Fabian Alfie (hybrid), April 8
Early Books Lecture Series XX: Albrecht Classen (hybrid), April 22