Maria Antònia Martí Escayol

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Maria Antònia Martí Escayol

Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Ph.D., is a tenured professor of the Department of Contemporary and Early Modern History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her interests include Environmental Humanities, Science History, Margaret Cavendish, and Oriental Studies. She likes to write about HistorioSciencfikcio, Helikopunko (Do you want to know what they are? Ask her!), Apocalypsis, and Zombies. She writes in Catalan and Castilian and has been translated into English, Italian, Chinese, and Portuguese. You can find her on Twitter @Imarssky and her website helikopunko.blogspot.com.

Short Fiction

Francine (draft for the September lecture)

Translated by Sue Burke

As a consequence of the scarlet fever, Francine’s skin became covered by a rash. In certain spots, her skin became scaly, swollen, and gangrenous. Six days into the illness, a finger began to putrefy, the little finger of the right hand. On that day, Descartes repeated incessantly: “Nothing that I think makes sense if I can do nothing when my daughter loses a finger.” Franciscus answered, “A finger is just a finger. Let us proceed.” And that is when it all began.

Maria Antònia Martí Escayol December 28, 2021