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Join us Wednesday, June 11 from 6:30 – 8pm for Addressing Baroque, a performance-reading with scholars and artists Shonni Enelow and Edgar Garcia where they will discuss and dramatize baroque address. Enelow and Garcia will work through the historical and aesthetic complexity of the baroque, from its origins in the colonial Americas through its manifestation in Counter Reformation Europe to its more recent appearance in the works of filmmaker Derek Jarman and photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

The performance will begin at 7pm.

Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric and indigenous cultures of the Americas. He is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he is affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing, and is currently a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of Emergency: Reading the PopolVuh in a Time of Crisis, Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography, and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu. His adaptations and translations of the mid sixteenth century Nahuatl language Cantares Mexicanos, titled Cantares, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. And he is finishing a book on Caravaggio and the baroque Americas.

Shonni Enelow is a writer and critic and a scholar of theater and film. She is Professor of English at Fordham University. She is the author of Joanna Hogg (Contemporary Film Directors, University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Method Acting and Its Discontents (Northwestern University Press, 2015), which won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the co-author with visual artist David Levine of A Discourse on Method (53rd State Press, 2020). She writes a column on contemporary film acting for Reverse Shot and is currently writing a book about acting, realism, and visual media.