2016 - 2017 Annual Surtz Lecture

  • March 20, 2017
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 CST
  • Piper Hall
  • Prof. Ian Cornelius, icornelius@luc.edu
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    Victims of Enchantment: Space and the Education of Desire in Postcolonial Tragedy
    A Lecture by Ato Quayson
    Monday, March 20, 2017
    Piper Hall
    4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

    Ato Quayson is University Professor and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, general editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and author or editor of more than ten books on a wide range of topics in postcolonial and diasporic literature and literary theory. These include Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2007), Oxford Street, Accra (2014), and the two-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012). He is presently at work on a new monograph titled Postcolonial Literary Tragedy.