[Hum_Calendar_Events] Dept of Comparative Literature presents Bruce Robbins

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Department of Comparative Literature

Lecture Series

"Humanism in the Humanities"

2007-2008

 

Featured Speaker:

 

Bruce Robbins

(Columbia University)

 

"Taking Up Space"

 

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

4:30pm

314 Royce Hall 

 

 

 

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth
century fiction, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies.
He is the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU,
1999), The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (Columbia, 1986;
Duke pb 1993) and Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism,
Culture (Verso, 1993). He has edited Intellectuals: Aesthetics,
Politics, Academics (Minnesota, 1990) and The Phantom Public Sphere
(Minnesota, 1993) and co-edited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling
beyond the Nation (Minnesota, 1998). He was co-editor of the journal
Social Text from 1991 to 2000.

 

 

 

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