2019 Faculty
Homi Bhabha
Keynote Speaker
Thomas Claviez
"Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature"
Verena Conley
"Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms"
Robert Coover
Guest lecturer
David Damrosch
"Globalization and Its Discontents"
Stefano Evangelista
"Citizens of Nowhere: Writing Cosmopolitanism"
Ursula Heise
"Science Fiction and the Imagination of Planetary Futures"
Héctor Hoyos
"World Literature between Historical and New Materialism"
Dominique Jullien
"Jorge Luis Borges and/as World Literature"
B. Venkat Mani
"Tales of Unsettlement: Refugees and / in World Literature"
Katharina Piechocki
“Rethinking World Literature through Cartography and the Spatial Turn”
Gisèle Sapiro
"How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?"
Mariano Siskind
"About the End of the World: Crises of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture and Theory"
Delia Ungureanu
"Localizing Time in World Literature and World Cinema"
Lawrence Venuti
"Translation Theory and Practice: Instrumental vs. Hermeneutic Models"
Rebecca Walkowitz
"Close Reading and World Literature"