"Out of Joint": Poetics of Uncertainty - Exploring the Kafkaesque
Professor Evi Petropoulou(URI/University of Athens),
with respondent Professor Zachary Sng (Brown University)
Followed by a reception
Hardge Forum, Multicultural Center,
74 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Nov. 20 (4pm)
Sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation, New York
Register here.
Evi Petropoulou is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature in the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Athens, Greece. She studied German Literature at the University of Athens and Comparative Literature at the University of Saarland, Germany, where she completed her Ph.D. with a DAAD scholarship. She is the author of History of Modern Greek Literature, published by Suhrkamp Verlag. Currently, she serves as the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages & Literatures at the University of Rhode Island and is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her research interests include comparative literature, literary theory and criticism, European and world literature, gender theory, and urban modernity.
Zachary Sng is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University, where he currently serves as Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty. He did his doctoral work at the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Konstanz. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist (2010) and Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps from Kant to Ashbery (2020). He is currently completing a new book on the idea of 'bareness' in literature and literary theory. His areas of teaching and research interests include British and German romanticism, literary theory, aesthetics, and translation.
