Katherine Philips, Meta-Metaphysical Poet
Mon 3/10/2025 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Arya Sureshbabu, Ph.D. Candidate in English (UC Berkeley) and recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship, explores how Katherine Philips’s poetics blur the lines between affection, interpretation, and creative endeavor—and how eighteenth-century readers’ fleeting encounters with her literary output remix and reactivate its intimate potentials.