HSS Humanities Center Mini-Residency: Rita Felski
Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor in the Department of English at the University of Virginia,
will deliver a public lecture and graduate student consultations as part of the HSS
Humanities Center Graduate Course-Based Mini-Residency Program, hosted by Professor
Gundela Hachmann (LSU Department of World Languages, Literatures & Culture) and the students of CPLT 7010.
Public Lecture: "Resonance and Reading with the New Frankfurt School"
Monday, October 14, 2024
4:00 p.m.
Hill Memorial Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public
Graduate Student Workshop: "How to Publish in Academic Journals"
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
4:00 p.m.
155 Hodges Hall
Free and open to interested graduate students; those working in humanistic disciplines
might be especially interested.
An author of multiple books on literary theory, and the former editor of New Literary History, Prof. Felski's research centers on aesthetics, method, and interpretation. The Limits of Critique (Chicago UP, 2015), treating the role of suspicion in literary criticism, was widely
reviewed and lauded, and she explores similar issues in Critique and Postcritique, co-edited with Elizabeth Anker (Duke UP, 2017). Hooked: Art and Attachment (Chicago UP, 2020) asks how and why we get stuck to works of art. Her current book
project discusses the contemporary Frankfurt School and its relevance for literary
studies. She has a longstanding interest in feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity,
genre (especially tragedy), comparative literature, and cultural studies. In 2016
she was awarded a Niels Bohr Professorship by the Danish National Research Foundation
to lead a large research project on "Uses of Literature: The Social Dimensions of
Literature" in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark.
To learn more about the HSSHC, or for questions, write Chris Barrett via email at
cbarrett@lsu.edu or visit the HSS Humanities Center website.