Date: 17 June
Time: 8:30 to 6:00 p.m
Place: G 160
Keynote Speaker: Merve Emre
Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), Collective Criticism (forthcoming in 2019 from Columbia University Press), and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, NPR, the Economist, and the Spectator. Her work has appeared in venues ranging from The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Harper’s, and The New York Times Magazine to American Literature, American Literary History, and Modernism/modernity.