Please join us and the Americas Before 1900 Working Group in welcoming Dr. Stephanie Kirk from the Washington University in St. Louis as she discusses "Conceptualizing the Early Modern Americas". Prof. Kirk will discuss the Introduction to Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas and her 2013 PMLA article, Mapping the Hemispheric Divide: The Colonial Americas in a Collaborative Context". Please RSVP to Lisa Voigt or Molly Farrell to reserve a lunch.
Stephanie Kirk is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her book, Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities was published by Florida University Press in 2007. She will publish her new book, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Culture in Colonial Mexico with Ashgate Publishing in 2015. Her research focuses principally on gender and religion in colonial Latin America and the early modern Atlantic world, and she has published numerous articles on these areas. Kirk holds an interest in the complex methodological issues surrounding the study of colonial religion in a hemispheric context. In the forthcoming edited volume, Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas, Kirk and her co-editor bring together a collection of essays exploring the impact of colonial encounters in the Atlantic world on the history of Christianity, paying particular attention to the hemispheric question and the challenges brought to bear on the study of religion from this vantage point.
