Join us for our final event of the semester as we kick off the 100 Days of Summer with a special focus on igniting your writing project! Whether you're an aspiring author or a seasoned scholar, these gathering promises to offer invaluable insights and motivation to put your pen to paper and set your ideas in motion. We will be joined by two distinguished experts in the world of publishing and academia, Susan Ferber, Executive Editor at Oxford University Press in New York, and Pamela Newkirk, an esteemed journalist, professor, and author. They will be joined by Ulrich Baer, Director,…

  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…

      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…