'Uncanny Intimacies: between hosts and guests', A Conversation with Alice Blackhurst

Join us for an evening with AUP's 2025 Writer in Residence, Alice Blackhurst, in conversation with Russell Williams (Comparative Literature). Their conversation, 'Uncanny Intimacies: between hosts and guests' will touch on topics as varied as literary salons, sibling dynamics, and Alice's current nonfiction project, 'The Lover Reread', written in the wake of Marguerite Duras.

Alice Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the author of Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image (2021), short-listed for the R Gapper Book Prize. Her essays and criticism have been published in The Paris Review, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Left Review, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement and Art Review and from 2016-2021 she was a Junior Research Fellow in French and Visual Culture at King’s College, Cambridge. In 2024 she published the Foreword to My Cinema, an anthology of Marguerite Duras’s film writings translated by Another Gaze Editions and her current projects include a book about rereading Duras’s 1984 novel The Lover, an account of living organ donation, and a study of contemporary literary and artistic salons.