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…

  Join us for the My Poetics  book launch event, attendees can look forward to a captivating conversation featuring Maureen N. McLane, Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at NYU, along with Alliya Dagman, PhD candidate and Public Humanities Fellow at NYU, and Wendy Lee, Professor of English at NYU. In My Poetics Maureen N. McLane melds her identities as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar, delving deeply into the essence of poetry. Written in an engaging and innovative style, McLane's essays explore a wide range of poetic forms, from romantic-era odes to contemporary works, including haikus and…