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The Comparative Literature Major traces the
traditions of Western literature from
antiquity to contemporary works from Europe
and the Americas. Each course is an integral
part of a diachronic presentation of this
literature and sheds a particular light on
the many readings of the literary tradition.
This light is fueled by the knowledge of
several literatures, by related work in
other disciplines of the humanities, and by
recent movements in literary and critical
theory.
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Brian
Brazeau's
forthcoming book
Writing a New
France
(1604-1632):
Empire and Early
Modern Identity
is to be included
in Ashgate
Publishing's new
series
“Transculturalisms,
1400-1700”, edited
by Ann Rosalind
Jones, Smith
College; Jyotsna
G. Singh, Michigan
State University;
and Mihoko Suzuki,
University of
Miami. |
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On
10 October, Dan
Gunn gave a talk
to the graduate
and faculty group
of the English
Department at the
University of
Edinburgh. His
talk was entitled
"From Spasm to
Indigence: the
Writer's Duty as
Revealed through
Samuel Beckett's
Letters". In
conjunction with
the publication in
February of Volume
I of the Beckett
letters, he has
been invited to
lecture at several
universities in
the US: Illinois,
Pennsylvania,
Princeton,
Rutgers, Boston,
and Harvard. |
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Lissa
Lincoln was
invited to speak
in a roundtable
discussion at the
Nordic Association
for Law and
Literature
conference held in
Helsinki, Finland
on October 3-4. |
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Ann
Mott, as Chair of
the European
Writing Centers
Association, has
been asked to give
a plenary at the
first
International
Conference on
Teaching English
Academic Writing
in Ukraine, at
Ivan Franko
National
University in
L’viv, Ukraine. |
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Anne-Marie
Picard-Drillien
gave a conference
at the Decade
"Autofiction" at
the Cultural
Centre of Cerisy-La-Salle
in Normandy. Her
paper was
entitled: "Martyres
de la cause du moi:
écriture et
inconscient de
l'auto-fiction".
She also organized
and introduced the
first session of
the
transdisciplinary
seminar in the
Humanities 08-09
on the theme of La
Folie Philosophe/Reasoning
Madness
where Kristina Valendinova (PhD
candidate in the
Department of the
History of
Consciousness,
University of
California, Santa
Cruz) presented
her thesis project
on the literature
of testimony with
a close reading of
the canonical text
on psychosis (D.
P. Scheber's
Memoirs of My
Mental Illness)
and Primo Levi’s
autobiographical
writings on his
concentration camp
experience. The
next session of
the seminar will
be on November
13th where Hegel
scholar
Joseph Cohen
will address
the question of
silence in Hegel's
Phenomenology
of Spirit. |
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Rebekah
Rast presented her
paper entitled
“The effects of
linguistic
experience on the
perception of
English accent
variation by
non-native
speakers” at the
18th Annual
European Second
Language
Acquisition
Conference: Second
Language
Acquisition
Research in
Context, hosted by
the Université de
Provence,
Aix-en-Provence,
10-13 September. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Nov 2008] |
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Roy
Rosenstein
contributed
several invited
short entries,
including those on
France, Paris,
Carson McCullers,
and Maxim Gorky,
to Jerry W. Ward,
Jr., and Robert J.
Butler, eds.,
The Richard Wright
Encyclopedia
(Greenwood, 2008).
This collective
volume was
prepared to
commemorate the
centennial this
year of Wright's
birth. AUP's
international
conference on
Wright, organized
by Bill Dow and
Alice Craven and
attended by the
two editors, was
held in June 2008. |
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Jula Wildberger
has accepted an
invitation to
write a new
translation of
Plato's
Republic for
Philip Reclam
jun., a leading
German publisher
of world
literature. |
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