Presented By: Department of English Language and Literature
Critical Conversations: Novels
Flash talks from faculty members and graduate students about their current work as related to a rotating theme
Andrea Zemgulys (Chair)
“The African Novel”
Gaurav Desai is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and a scholar of African and postcolonial literature. Along with a colleague at Rutgers University he is currently completing work on an edited collection on the Institutions of African Literature to be published by Cambridge University Press. He recently served as President of the African Literature Association and is currently the President of the Association of Departments of English.
“Shrinking the Infinite”
Gabe Habash is the author of the novel Stephen Florida, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the American Booksellers Association Indies Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, and the Clark Fiction Prize. He is the recipient of a fellowship from Bread Loaf and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, Guernica, The Millions, Poets & Writers, Lithub, and more.
“The Transit of Venus, Middlemarch, and the Stupidity of Intertextuality.”
Daniel Hack is Professor of English at U-M and the author of two books: The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel and Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature. He has two articles forthcoming later this fall: an appreciation of A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr, for the Public Books website, and "Why Always That Dorothea: Realism and the Rise of Meaning." That article will appear in the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction, in a special issue he co-edited on "Belief in Fiction.
Modern Refugee Codices: Rethinking Authorship, Medium, and Format
Will Stroebel teaches Modern Greek and Comparative Literature. His book, Literature's Refuge, came out earlier this year and is well worth the reading.
Please RSVP here:
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UPCOMING
Wednesday, November 19, 1–3pm: Method(ologies)
Each session of Critical Conversations, a monthly luncheon series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office, features flash talks from faculty members and graduate students about their current work as related to a rotating theme. The goal of these sessions is to share and learn about each other's work and serve as an important hub for timely conversations with relevance across the humanities.
“The African Novel”
Gaurav Desai is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and a scholar of African and postcolonial literature. Along with a colleague at Rutgers University he is currently completing work on an edited collection on the Institutions of African Literature to be published by Cambridge University Press. He recently served as President of the African Literature Association and is currently the President of the Association of Departments of English.
“Shrinking the Infinite”
Gabe Habash is the author of the novel Stephen Florida, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the American Booksellers Association Indies Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, and the Clark Fiction Prize. He is the recipient of a fellowship from Bread Loaf and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, Guernica, The Millions, Poets & Writers, Lithub, and more.
“The Transit of Venus, Middlemarch, and the Stupidity of Intertextuality.”
Daniel Hack is Professor of English at U-M and the author of two books: The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel and Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature. He has two articles forthcoming later this fall: an appreciation of A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr, for the Public Books website, and "Why Always That Dorothea: Realism and the Rise of Meaning." That article will appear in the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction, in a special issue he co-edited on "Belief in Fiction.
Modern Refugee Codices: Rethinking Authorship, Medium, and Format
Will Stroebel teaches Modern Greek and Comparative Literature. His book, Literature's Refuge, came out earlier this year and is well worth the reading.
Please RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwlTusdaN7mdtJeWS6xsxSe4fdrc857oq9Zl94J-y8pjm0gg/viewform
UPCOMING
Wednesday, November 19, 1–3pm: Method(ologies)
Each session of Critical Conversations, a monthly luncheon series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office, features flash talks from faculty members and graduate students about their current work as related to a rotating theme. The goal of these sessions is to share and learn about each other's work and serve as an important hub for timely conversations with relevance across the humanities.
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