Graduate students and faculty members of all disciplines are warmly invited to a talk by Professor Caroline Levine on "Reading for the Common Good: Sustainability, Routine, Infrastructure." The talk will be held on Wednesday, November 1st, at 4pm in the Class of 1947 Room in the Homer Babbidge Library.
Prof. Levine is currently David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University. She's the author of three books: The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003), Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007), and Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015). Forms recently won James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. As her Cornell webpage explains, Professor Levine has spent her career "asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter, especially in democratic societies. She argues for the understanding of forms and structures as crucial to understanding links between art and society."
This event is sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Senate. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact: Eleanor Reeds at eleanor.reeds@uconn.edu