I’ll be giving a new talk, using some material from Becoming a Writer, at the University of Chicago in early February. Title: “Academic Writing, I Love You. Really, I Do.” Event organized by the devastating Lauren Berlant. This will be my first … Continue reading →

I’ll be giving two seminars at Yale later this month. The first, for the Theory & Media colloquium, is on On Literary Worlds (Thursday Jan 31, 4pm); the second, Friday at noon, is a discussion of scholarly writing. Students will be … Continue reading →

Andrés Lomeña Cantos interviewed me (by email) about On Literary Worlds and the current state of comparative literature for Teknocultura. He’s also posted the interview on his blog, heterocosmicas. (In Spanish; he translated, though it’s fun to realize I can read … Continue reading →

I’ll be speaking on Friday at 10:15 as part of a panel called “What Does Comparative Literature Do for, against, after Periodization?”; and then participating in a roundtable, “Parsing World Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Alternatives to Period, Region, and … Continue reading →

UCLA and USC in between trips to Las Vegas; first image is of a David Hockney painting. Both talks mainly on the new book. Slides below.

Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech; also an original member of Sha Na Na) and I keynoted the Southern Comparative Literature Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas. Talk had some stuff on Jason Rohrer from the new book project, in the later slides … Continue reading →