Jan 12, 2018 By: yunews
Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at , delivered two talks at the January 4-7 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City.
She spoke on 鈥淭ravelling into the Unexpected with J.M.W. Turner and William Thackeray鈥 for the Visual Culture Forum, held this year in honor of John Berger, the late painter, art critic and novelist.
She also presented 鈥淭he Limits of Case Study for Literary Analysis鈥 at a Literature and Anthropology panel.
Shires鈥 invited essay on 鈥淚mage鈥 will be published next year in the journal Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press) as part of the inaugural issue under new editors Rachel Ablow (University at Buffalo) and Daniel Hack (University of Michigan).
