Lecture by William Egginton
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Date and Time: January 8, 2018 | 5:00 PM-7:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Irvine
Presents
What are You Going to Do with That?
The Role of Literary and Cultural Studies in the Market University
A Public Lecture by
William Egginton
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Irvine
Presents
What are You Going to Do with That?
The Role of Literary and Cultural Studies in the Market University
A Public Lecture by
William Egginton
William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. His research and teaching focus on Spanish and Latin American literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy. Professor Egginton is the author of numerous books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (Columbia UP, 2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2016), and, with David Castillo, Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is also the co-editor, with Mike Sandbothe, of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy (2004) and, with David E. Johnson, of Thinking With Borges (2009), as well as the translator of Lisa Block de Behar’s Borges, the Passion of an Endless Quotation (2003).