“Arranging Atoms and Reading Arrangement” with Dr. Liza Blake
Presented by the Glasscock Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowship
Feb 26, 2025
Liza Blake | Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto
Presented by the Glasscock Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowship
Free & Open to the public
Event contact: Faculty host, Dr. Whitney Sperrazza (wsperrazza@tamu.edu)
“Arranging Atoms and Reading Arrangement: Science, Philosophy, and Poetics”
Dr. Liza Blake will present on her innovative, interdisciplinary research project Choose Your Own Poems
and Fancies, a multimedia rearrangeable edition and monograph exploring the role of arrangement in the
atom poems published by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle in her Poems and Fancies
(London, 1653; revised, rearranged, and reprinted 1664 and 1668). Cavendish’s 17th-century
poetic experiments have ongoing consequences for the histories and theories of reading, atomism,
literary history, and digital media.