Michel Chaouli (Professor, Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington) will discuss his book Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins. He will be joined in conversation by Emily Apter (Julius Silver Professor of French Literature Thought and Culture, NYU). Something Speaks to Me is an account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us scramble for a response. As Michel Chaouli argues, criticism involves…

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024), an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry by acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane. McLane, Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at NYU, will read from My Poetics, followed by a conversation with Wendy Anne Lee, Professor of English at NYU and Alliya Dagman, doctoral candidate and Public Humanities Fellow at NYU. Registration is required for this event for both NYU and non-NYU attendees. Feel free to bring your copies for signing: use discount code UCPNEW…