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Speaker: Dominique Brancher (I Tatti / Yale University)
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As Professor of French at Yale University, Dominique Brancher is a literary specialist interested in three main areas: the interplay between “literature” and other forms of knowledge, the history of sexuality, and an archeology of Western thinking of life - in particular the boundary between the animate and the inanimate. By establishing a dialogue between literary criticism and life sciences, she has contributed to the foundation of a new subfield, the biological humanities. Her most recent publications include “Montaigne en Asie” (direction of a special issue, 2024) and Héritages botaniques et zoologiques de Pline au XVIe siècle (volume co-edited, 2023). She is now preparing a book on Montaigne and medicine. Before coming to Yale, she held the chair in ancient French Literature at the University of Basel.
Image: Veduta dei Bagni di Lucca, detti alla Villa, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
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