Novel Theory

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: AMY HOLLYWOOD, HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL Continuing the Novel Theory seminar's ongoing investigation of how novels themselves do theory, we invite you to join us and Amy Hollywood for a reading group in which we'll revisit Emily Brontë...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania State University During a fevered and increasingly unsettled evening at a literary festival, the eponymous narrator of Pola Oloixarac’s Mona (2019) has a realization that she relays to her fellow...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKERS: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College; Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the “tyranny” of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University Please join us for a fun conversation about Anna Burns's Milkman, the 2018 Booker-Prize-winning novel about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. About the Speaker Ivan Kreilkamp teaches in the...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Aarthi Vadde, Duke University This talk pairs attribution and evasion to think about how novelists have engaged with the rise of mass-cultural authorship in the surveilled environments of social media. It returns to the preeminent...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School Continuing the Novel Theory seminar's ongoing investigation of how novels themselves do theory, we invite you to join us and Amy Hollywood for a reading group in which we'll revisit Charlotte...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Jini Kim Watson, New York University How did the Cold War shape political modernity in the decolonizing world, and what do literature and literary genres reveal about such political contestations and their afterlives? Jini Kim Watson...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Daniel Hack, University of Michigan Respondent: Kevin Ohi, Boston College About the Speakers Daniel Hack’s work explores the situatedness and mobility of literary texts and tropes, from the significance of a text’s original...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: John Lurz, Tufts University This talk asks what it means for us, as students of literature, to see the texts we read within the lives that we live and to see the lives that we live within the texts that we read. Attempting to...