Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Christopher Lasasso
Doctoral Student in English
Research Interests
Early Modern English Literature & Drama, Race & Slavery, Transatlantic Studies, Environmental & Blue Humanities
Research Interests
16th- and 17th-Century Literature and Drama, Early Modern England, the Early Colonial Caribbean, Atlantic Studies, Oceans, Decolonial Epistemologies and Unknowability
Biography
Christopher Lasasso’s research focuses on early modern European conceptions of the sea, with a particular focus on English colonial and imperial trade, travel, and expansion throughout the circum-Caribbean in the 16th and 17th centuries. Their interests lie with all of that which lies submerged, drowned, and seemingly forgotten beneath the eater’s surface, as well as the epistemological and ontological consequences that follow the salvaging and dredging up of these histories in order to rectify the terrestrial biases of early modern studies and it's most privileged archives.