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Personal profile
Research
My educational background is in comparative literature, but doctoral and postdoctoral studies in the early modern and pre-modern era have given emphasis to French Studies in my research activities. My horizon however remains geographically and temporally broad in scope. Thematically, my fields of interests are the intersections between literature, politics, philosophy, the making of selfhood, and community.
My current postdoc is within the research project Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity, which is headquartered at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. The project is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
By giving new attention to early modern female freethinking in France across literary genres, Another Humanism revises a conventional humanistic historical narrative of subjectivity as founded on the challenged idea of human sovereignty.
The project arises from the hypothesis that the marginalized forms of subjectivities that early modern female authors gave expression to, have the potential to positively redefine the understanding of humanism after the post-anthropocentric turn.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- Gender studies, Ethnicity, Equal rights
- Literature, Art, Music, Aestheticism
- History, Society
Publication network
Projects
- 1 Active
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Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity
Gerdes, N. & Franzén, C.
01/01/2020 → …
Project: Research
Activities
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Philosophy In Other Words
Nan Gerdes (Speaker)
1 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Nan Gerdes (Speaker)
30 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
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The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting
Nan Gerdes (Speaker)
20 Apr 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
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Atelier franco-nordique
Nan Gerdes (Speaker)
12 Jun 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Recovering Women’s Identities between Centre and Periphery (16th-20th centuries)
Nan Gerdes (Speaker)
6 Mar 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference