Book Discussion Workshop - Katie Chenoweth, The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language

The Writing Technologies Network welcomes Professor Katie Chenoweth (Princeton) for a discussion of her book The Prosthetic Tongue (Penn, 2019; see description below). After a presentation by the author, we will move to a workshop discussion of the book and the questions it raises, particularly around the relationships between language, technology, and the human body in the early modern period.

More information:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-discussion-workshop-katie-chenoweth-the-prosthetic-tongue-printing-technology-and-the-ris