7th Annual Normand Berlin lecture with Debapriya Sarkar (Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut) 

Debapriya Sarkar is Assistant Professor of English and Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include early modern literature and culture, history and philosophy of science, environmental humanities, and literature and social justice. She has co-edited, with Jenny C. Mann, a special issue of Philological Quarterly called 'Imagining Early Modern Scientific Forms' (2019). She is author of Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (U Penn 2023), which traces how literary writing helped to re-imagine the landscape of epistemic uncertainty at the time of the Scientific Revolution. Most recently, she has published, “Ecocriticism and the Geographies of Race” in The Sundial. Her work also appears or is forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Studies, Spenser Studies, Exemplaria, and in several edited collections.