Hala Halim, Associate Professor, New York University "Arab Modernity/Modernism, and the Case of Edwar al-Kharrat" Wed November 8, 4-6pm 904 Clemens Dr. Halim's talk will be preceded that day by […]
Christopher Bush (Northwestern University) “Minimal Totalization: The Haiku as Modernist Form” Christopher Bush (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA) is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. […]
Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense) is currently visiting scholar at UB, translating Emily Dickinson into Portuguese. Please stop by for light snacks and Portuguese-English poetry readings of both Dickinson and […]
A talk on Brazilian modernism of the 1950s and 60s: the construction of Brasília, the emergence of Bossa Nova, and the poetic experimentation of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Adalberto […]
MARIANO SISKIND is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American Literature with emphasis on its world literary […]
MRW Opening Reception Thursday 6 September, 4:00–6:00 pm 904 Clemens Hall Food will be provided. We will discuss upcoming events for the year and also request your input regarding works-in-progress […]
Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), this year’s Humanities Institute James Joyce Fellow. He has been in Buffalo since May working at the Poetry Collection, and his talk will focus on […]
Please join us for Justin Read's triumphant return to the Modernist Research Workshop, for a work-in-progress session on a chapter titled “The Face of the Moon, or How I Learned […]
MRW inaugural spring reading session Peter Szendy, from All Ears (2017) Monday 11 February, 12:00--1:30 Clemens 904: lunch will be provided. Download: szendy discipline and listen
The Sun Island is an essay film about coincidences, shattered lives and posthumous fame. A found footage family film about love and passion, friendship and heartbreak set in Frankfurt and […]
