Carme Font Paz

Biography

Prior to her university appointments, Carme Font worked as a literary translator, editor and reader for major publishers in Barcelona and Madrid. She is driven by her work's mission, and understands the practice and the teaching of literature as a venue for sharing inspiring knowledge through quality scholarship, innovation and learning. Postdoctoral positions at UCLA and Harvard University, as well as her participation in international research projects, have enhanced her notion of early modern women’s writing as a historical narrative in progress. As literary scholars, we require a multilateral and interdisciplinary approach to textual source research, as well as further theoretical approaches that inform women’s creative endeavors as shapers of intellectual history beyond the category of ‘women’s writing’.

Education

Ph.D. (2011), UAB (with European Mention)
M.A. (2007), UAB
B.A. (1995) Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

A specialist in British literature of the long seventeenth century, in particular women's prophetic writing, poetry and religious prose, Carme Font’s research is sensitive to the cultural reception of seventeenth-century women's writing within the European context, as well as theoretical aspects of early modern women's intellectual history, literary misogyny and invisibility. She understands early modern feminisms as protean, rich in forms and cultural capital in the intersections of Protestant and Catholic beliefs. Her research also seeks to integrate socio-economic considerations in the study of early modern textualities by women, and it is aware of methods in digital humanities.

Personal Interests

Literature has always been a passion for Carme, and she takes university teaching and research both as a privilege and a service. Her early professional background as a literary translator and reader for publishers contributed to her interest in the continuities between texts, ideas, and editorial practices from the past to the present. She is also drawn by teaching methodologies of advanced reading and creative writing practice, which she has been sharing for several years now in writers’ workshops in Barcelona. Taking long walks with her family in villages from the north Mediterranean coast is the delight of her spare time.

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• Carme Font - UAB

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