Derek Attridge - Department of English at Cornell University

The Cornell Department of English Presents
Derek Attridge
Professor of English and Related Literature,
University of York
“Character and Counterfocalization:
Coetzee’s Kafkan Modernism”
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 4:30pm
Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Preceded by a seminar with Derek Attridge
“The Work of Literature”
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 10:00am to 12:00pm
English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall
Please RSVP for the seminar by email to:
ser93@cornell.edu
For relevant materials please visit:
http://english.arts.cornell.edu/news/events/
or email: ser93@cornell.edu
Derek Attridge teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature
at the University of York, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. A
former Guggenheim Fellow, Leverhulme Research Professor and All Souls
Visiting Fellow, Oxford, he is currently John P. Birkelund
Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center,
North Carolina. He is the author or editor of over
twenty books on literary theory, poetic form, and Irish
and South African literature. His most recent publication
was Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry
(Oxford University Press), and forthcoming in 2015
are The Work of Literature (Oxford University Press)
and, with Henry Staten, The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues
on Minimal Interpretation (Routledge).