Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Pablo Maurette

PABLO MAURETTE

Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities

University of Chicago

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Comparative Literature (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013)

M.A. Late Antique and Byzantine Studies(University of LondonRoyal Holloway College,2005)

B.A. Classical Philosophy (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002)

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH

Journal Articles

“The Organ of Organs: Vesalius and the Wonders of the Human Hand,” Journal of Medieval and

Early Modern Studies 41.8 (2018)Forthcoming

“To Kiss by the Book: Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and Sixteenth Century Kiss Poetry,”

English Literary Renaissance47.3(2017) Forthcoming

“Plato’s Hermaphrodite and a Vindication of the Sense of Touch in the Sixteenth

Century,”Renaissance Quarterly68.3 (2015): 872-898

“De rerum textura: Lucretius, Fracastoro, and the Sense of Touch,” Sixteenth Century Journal

45.2 (2014): 309-330

“Porphyry and Mithraism: De antro nympharum and the Christian

Controversy,” Dionysius 22 (2005): 1-19

Book Reviews

Ada Palmer, Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance(Cambridge, Harvard University Press,

2014). Classical Philology, 111. 2 (2016):195-199

Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture. New York,

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Studies in the Age of Chaucer36 (2014): 344-347

Ita Mac Carthy, ed. Renaissance Keywords (London: Legenda/Modern Humanities Research Association and ManeyPublishing, 2013). Modern Philology. Forthcoming

Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, and Rosemary Barrow, eds. The Classical Tradition: Art,

Literature, Thought (London: Wiley Blackwell, 2014). Comparative Critical Studies11.2-3 (2014): 355-358

PUBLICATIONS IN SPANISH

Books

El sentido olvidado:ensayos sobre el tacto, Buenos Aires, Mardulce Editora,2015.

Translated and Edited Books

Thomas Browne, Religio Medici: La religión de un médico. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura

Económica, 2016.

Robert Burton, Anatomía de la Melancolía. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Winograd, 2008 (selection

of passages and introduction, 309 pages)

Porfirio, El Antro de las ninfas en la Odisea- Puntos de partida hacia los

Inteligibles. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 2008 (translation from the Greek,

introduction and notes, 135 pages)

Christopher Horrocks, Baudrillard y el Milenio. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2004 (translation from the

English, 96 pages)

Stuart Sim, Lyotard y lo Inhumano. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2004 (translation from the English, 95

pages)

Journal Articles

“A Possession for Everlasting: Thomas Hobbes traductor de Tucídides,”

Deus Mortalis: Cuadernos deFilosofía Política 9 (2010): 289-332

“Una aproximacion al mito de Hécate,” El Hilo de Ariadna 8(2010): 32-39

“Ineluctable Modalidad de lo Pasional: Proteo en The Faerie Queene,”

Eadem Utraque Europa 8 (2009): 11-29

“John Donne: el amor y la muerte,” Hablar de Poesía 15 (2006): 39-55

“El hombre eriugeniano entre Adán y San Juan,” Medievalia 36 (2004):

66-79

“Del lógos al érgon: desventuras del platonismo político,” Deus Mortalis:

Cuadernos de Filosofía Política 3 (2004): 133-158

“El mal y lo ilimitado en la filosofía de Proclo,” Nova Tellus 22, Vol.1

(2004): 141-165

“Plotino y la protogénesis del mal,” Diadokhé 5, Vol. 1-2 (2002): 7-22

Articles in Edited Volumes

“Lo Uno como principio ético: Plotino más allá de la areté,” in En

diálogo con los griegos. María Isabel Santa Cruz (ed.), Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2004, 305-314

SELECTED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Notes on Flaying: The Discovery of the Skin in the Renaissance” (April, 2016), Literature and

Science Seminar, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford (invited speaker)

“Doing Things with Words: The Strange Case of Barnabe Barnes” (March, 2016), ACLA Annual

Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)

“The Symposium Up Close” (February, 2016), Quarterly Lecture Greek Thought and Literature,

University of Chicago (invited speaker)

“Kissing and Bussing in the Renaissance” (January, 2016), College of Letters, Wesleyan

University, Middletown (CT) (invited speaker)

“The Children of Anaxagoras” (November, 2015), The History of Science Society Conference,

San Francisco

“The Organ of Organs: Vesalius and the Wonders of the Human Hand” (September, 2015),

Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy, Duke University, Durham (NC) (invited

speaker)

“Breakfast of Love: The Sixteenth-Century Kiss-Craze” (September, 2015), Department of

Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) (invited speaker)

“Sir Thomas Browne and the Metaphysics of Flaying” (March, 2015), Renaissance Society of

America 61st Annual Conference, Berlin

“The Discovery of Skin in the Renaissance: Medicine, Literature, and Art” (March, 2015),

Comparative Literature Research Seminar, King’s College, London (invited speaker)

“Sight versus Touch: The Kiss Motif in the Sonnets and Madrigals of Barnabe Barnes” (January,

2015) Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Vancouver

“The Physician and the Sculptor: Tactility and Tangibility in Sixteenth-Century Readings of

Lucretius” (October, 2014) Sixteenth Century Society Conference, New Orleans

“Tactus and Contagio: The Renaissance Catches Lucretius” (March, 2014)

Renaissance Society of America 60th Annual Conference, New York City

“Renaissance Skin” (February, 2013)Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard

University, Cambridge (MA) (invited speaker)

“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Tongue-Kissing but WereAfraid to Ask:

Tactility and the Kiss in the 16th Century” (March, 2012)

NeMLA 43rd. AnnualConvention, Rochester (NY)

“The Second Most Intimate Touch: Kiss Poetry in the Sixteenth Century” (February, 2012)

Department of English, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York(invited speaker)

“A Natural History of the Kiss: From Poetry to Philosophy in the Renaissance” (December,

2011)Comparative Literature Research Seminar, King’s College, London (invited speaker)

“De rerum textura: Lucretian Physicians and the Question of Touch in Early Modern

Europe” (May, 2011)2nd Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies, London

“Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Touch” (February, 2011)

Lilian R. Furst Forum in ComparativeLiterature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Palabra de Borges: Diálogos, Coloquios y Entrevistas” (March, 2008)

Carolina Conference in Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill

“Porphyry, the Cave of the Nymphs and Mithraism” (December, 2007)Center for Late

Ancient Studies, Duke University, Durham (NC) (invited, paid speaker)

“El problema del mal en la filosofía de Proclo” (September, 2003)

Coloquio Internacional Nova Tellus,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México D.F.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Eugene H. Falk Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Literature, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill (September, 2014)

Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Travel Award, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill (March 2012)

Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Travel Award, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill (May 2011)

Tanner Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Undergraduate

Teaching, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill(January 2010)

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I Studentship, full tuition fees for

M.A. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies(2004-2005)

Full Scholarship Goethe Institut, two months of intensive German at the

Goethe Institut, Freiburg i. Br., Germany(2001- 2002)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (as Instructor)

Monstrosity and the Monstrous

Spring 2017: University of Chicago

Greece and Rome: Texts, Traditions, Transformations

Autumn and Winter 2016-2017: University of Chicago

Human Being and Citizen

Autumn and Winter 2015-2016: University of Chicago

The Lives of Eros: A Brief History of Desire

Summer 2015 and 2016: University of Chicago

Greek Thought and Literature

Autumn, Winter, Spring 2013-2014: University of Chicago

English Composition and Rhetoric

Spring 2013: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Great Books II: “Love and Death (1750-1980)”

Fall 2012: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Intro to Fiction: “Monsters and Monstrosity in Western Literature”

Spring 2012: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Spanish (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

Fall 2008-Fall 2011: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (as Teaching Assistant)

Film Analysis

Fall 2012: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Great Books I: “Romancing the World”

Fall 2010: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Approaches to Comparative Literature

Fall 2009, 2010: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

LANGUAGES

Spanish (native)

English (near native)

Italian (near native)

French (excellent reading, good speaking)

German (excellent reading, good speaking)

Portuguese (proficiency in reading)

Classical Greek (proficiency in reading)

Latin (proficiency in reading)

Romanian (beginner)

SERVICE

“Culianu 25 Years: Symposium and memorial on the 25th anniversary of Ioan Culianu’s

Death”, University of Chicago: Organizer and Moderator (May 2016)

Hiring Committee, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Humanities Search

University of Chicago (2014-2015)

Comparative Literature and English Association of Graduate Students, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill: President (2010-2011)

Comparative Literature International Film Series, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Organizer (2009-2010)

“Borges at 110: Round Table Discussion on the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of

Jorge Luis Borges,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Organizer (August

2009)

REFERENCES

Available upon request