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In Conversation with Merve Emre
01 June 2022, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
Merve Emre will be interviewed about her upcoming book, 'Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities'
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Sarah Edwards
Location
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IAS ForumG17, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCLGower St, LONDONWC1E 6BT
As part of this event, Merve Emre will be interviewed by Sarah Edwards, a PhD candidate in UCL English studying contemporary feminist essays. The interview will focus on Emre’s upcoming book titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, and the recent publication of The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (2021). However, the interview will also touch on Emre’s earlier works such as Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017) and her work on the contemporary essay.
The event is free to attend but you must book a place at this event on Eventbrite prior to attending. The Eventbrite link can be found here.
If you have any questions you would like to ask Merve Emre, please feel free to contact sarah.edwards.19@ucl.ac.uk with your question by 5pm on the 25th of May and Sarah will try her best to incorporate them into the interview.
About the Speakers
Merve Emre
scholar, critic, editor and Associate Professor of English at University of Oxford
She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and informs the CNN/HBO Max documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Norton, 2021). She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. In 2022, she is serving as one of the judges of the International Booker Prize. From 2022-23, she will be a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University.
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PhD candidate at UCL Dept of English
Sarah Edwards graduated from Cambridge in 2019 with a BA in English Literature and an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Her research explores how contemporary feminist essayists--writing in America, Britain and Canada--are influenced by the internet. Her dissertation focuses on theorising the essay in the context of fourth-wave feminism and digital publication methods. The project shows the ways in which fourth wave feminism, the digital age and the essay genre are intertwined by arguing that contemporary feminist essays are crafted in ways that respond to contemporary politics and life online. Further, it investigates claims made by fourth wave feminism about the role of digital spaces and digital platforms for feminist action.
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