HSS Humanities Center Mini-Residency: Rita Felski

Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, will deliver a public lecture and graduate student consultations as part of the HSS Humanities Center Graduate Course-Based Mini-Residency Program, hosted by Professor Gundela  Hachmann (LSU Department of World Languages, Literatures & Culture) and the students of CPLT 7010.

 

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

4:00 p.m.

French House Grand Salon

Free and open to the public

 

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

12:00 p.m.

155 Hodges Hall

Free and open to interested graduate students; those working in humanistic disciplines might be especially interested. 

 

An author of multiple books on literary theory, and the former editor of New Literary History, Prof. Felski's research centers on aesthetics, method, and interpretation. The Limits of Critique (Chicago UP, 2015), treating the role of suspicion in literary criticism, was widely reviewed and lauded, and she explores similar issues in Critique and Postcritique, co-edited with Elizabeth Anker (Duke UP, 2017). Hooked: Art and Attachment (Chicago UP, 2020) asks how and why we get stuck to works of art. Her current book project discusses the contemporary Frankfurt School and its relevance for literary studies. She has a longstanding interest in feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity, genre (especially tragedy), comparative literature, and cultural studies. In 2016 she was awarded a Niels Bohr Professorship by the Danish National Research Foundation to lead a large research project on "Uses of Literature: The Social Dimensions of Literature" in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark.

 

To learn more about the HSSHC, or for questions, write Chris Barrett via email at [email protected] or visit the HSS Humanities Center website.