[Englecturers] The Gregory Bredbeck memorial Lecture Series Inaugural Lecture

[Susan Brown]

Please save the date for the first Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture to be
given by Carolyn Dinshaw Thursday, February 28th at 3:30pm in HMNSS 1500.  

 

Carolyn Dinshaw

Professor of English and Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University

OUT OF SYNC: THREE TALES OF THE CATSKILLS

What does it feel like to be a body in time -- or out of time, or in the
wrong time? In this talk Professor

Dinshaw will explore experiences of time that are not linear and progressive
but are, rather, nonsynchronous.

Situated in the Catskill Mountain range, Dinshaw picks up on the legendary
temporalities

of the area by looking at three weird chronic phenomena: Rip van Winkle's
night of sleep that lasted 20

years; a nineteenth-century female hunter, "born too soon," who passed as a
man; and an old gravestone

that washed up on the banks of a flooded creek. She will discuss the ethics
of addressing what Derrida

calls the "non-contemporaneity with itself of the living present."

Thursday, February 28, HMNSS 1500 3:30 pm

 

 

 

Susan Brown

Management Services Officer

Department of English

University of California, Riverside

(951)827-1456

 

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