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Whitney Sperrazza

is an Assistant Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research sits at the intersections of early modern literary studies, histories of science, feminist theory, and digital humanities. Her in-progress book traces the shared material histories of women’s poetry and early modern anatomy. You can find her published work in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Women’s Writing, and Lady Science.
Reading Anatomy Texts Like Poetry (and why we should do it more often)
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Reading Anatomy Texts Like Poetry (and why we should do it more often)

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A guest post by Whitney Sperrazza Thomas Bartholin, Bartholinus anatomy (London, 1668), page 76. Folger B977, image from Luna. When we look at this page from Thomas Bartholin’s 1668 anatomy text (Folger B977), it’s easy to think of it as…