THE BLUSH: RACIALIZING SEXUALITY THROUGH EARLY MODERN OVID

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021, 3:00 - 4:00 PM (PDT)

Presented by the Early Modern Center.

Valeria Traub, professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, discussed the concept of blushing and how its meanings and associated ideologies have changed across time. In medieval and early modern Western literature, blushing was associated with fairness and paleness, and over the course of early modernity, the concept of the blush has increasingly been denied to characters with dark skin. 

See our HFA coverage of the event here.