Distinguished Lecturer Series - Dr. John Slater

Leakages: Promiscuity and Patriarchy From the Seventeenth Century to the Information Age

Dr. John Slater is Associate Professor & Chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Davis.  His research examines the histories of science, medicine & literature in 17th century Spain. 

He is the author of Todos son hojas: Literatura e historia natural en el barroco español, and is co-editor of Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire as well as two plays by Calderón de la Barca: En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira and Sueños hay que verdad son.  His articles have appeared in MLN, Social History of Medicine, History of Science, and elsewhere.