COLLOQUIUM Mexican Scholarship in the 18th Century Centered on his recent publication, Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters, in this colloquium Professor Robles discusses the vital intellectual and literary culture of eighteenth-century Mexico. This polycentric network of scholars stands in contrast with the traditional understanding of a centralized Eurocentric and cosmopolitan model. About José Francisco Robles José Francisco Robles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in Hispanic Literature from El Colegio de México in 2012 and is the author of Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters, winner of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) 2022 Louis A. Gottschalk Prize. |