Reed Gochberg (Fellow at Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College): "Specimen Collectors: Museums and Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"

Salon with CHI fellow Reed Gochberg
"Specimen Collectors: Museums and Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
Reed Gochberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College. Her book project explores the relationship between nineteenth-century American literature and the history of museum collecting, tracing the importance of specimens, artifacts, and other material objects to literary discussions of conservation and scientific practice.
 

Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, 4:30PM
CHI, second floor of Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst MA