Textualities in Hispanic Early Modernity
Within the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University, our THEM Lab is a platform for talks, worshops, scholarly notes, editions, and visualizations of Early Modern texts.
Our idea of the humanities “lab” is vaguely inspired by the imaginary of the Renaissance workshop: a mixed area that combines a selected library with a printing press, a garage and a sewing room, a space where faculty and students would collaborate in the transcription of manuscripts and old prints, visualization of data and research, reading and annotation of texts, and the production of scholarly editions and textual studies. At the same time, our “lab” is also a place of academic experimentation, creative practices and open conversations with an international community that shares interest in the textual cultures of the 16th to 18th century, particularly in the transatlantic interchanges within the vast Spanish Monarchy, and the textualities and semiotics of colonial settings.
Note: Illuminated letters from the Contreras’s print shop in Lima, 1621.