From Auerbach’s Istanbul to Spitzer’s Baltimore: The American Afterlife of Philology
March 11th, 2014
In this talk I will address the ways in which Auerbach and Spitzer continue to serve as points of reference for American comparatists today, looking at the differences entailed when we situate them in Istanbul versus in their subsequent American context.
Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University
Director of the Institute for World Literature.
Main Research:
- Comparative Literature
- World Literature
- the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures
Publications:
- How to Read World Literature, London 2009.
- (Co-Ed.) Princeton Sourcebook book in Comparative Literature, Princeton 2009.
- (Ed.) The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2009.
- (Ed.) Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2004.
- What Is World Literature?, Princeton 2003.
- We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University, London 1995.
- The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature, San Francisco 1987.