This month on the Metropolitan Culture Corner we interview author, translator, lecturer and researcher, Dr. Carme Font Paz. Her research explores the marginalization of women’s thought in the early modern period (1500-1770), when the newly invented printing press allowed widespread dissemination of printed materials throughout Europe. Her work is particularly focused on habitually neglected intellectual contributions of female writers during this period of time.
Dr. Font has collaborated with academic institutions and various research projects in countries including Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States, and received research grants both from UCLA and Harvard University. In 2018, she was awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council for Project WINK which stands for “Women’s Invisible Ink: Trans-Genre Writing and the Gendering of Intellectual Value in Early Modernity.”
