I am looking forward to taking part in a roundtable titled “Strategic Presentism” at the 2018 MLA convention in New York.
Session 468. Strategic Presentism
SATURDAY, 6 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, NASSAU WEST (HILTON)
Presentism has often been the name for an intellectual mistake, but intervening in the present has also been one of the most urgent aims of a political criticism. This roundtable asks how and whether literary studies should perform a historical literary studies for and in the present. What kind of relation to the...
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