The English Department is excited to bring Guest Speakers to campus on a variety of topics.
Please be sure to join us for:
Peter Brooks
“Persons and Optics:
The Idea of Character in Literary Study”
April 7, 2015 at 5:30-7:00pm Library Auditorium
Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University, joined the Princeton University faculty in 2008 as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar, in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature. At Princeton he directs a project on “The Ethics of Reading and the Cultures of Professionalism,” which included the Symposium, “The Humanities in the Public Sphere,” held at Princeton in April 2012, the source of the recent book, edited with Hillary Jewett, The Humanities and Public Life (Fordham 2014).
Peter Brooks, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University, has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century novels, narrative theory, and the interrelations of law and literature. His many books include Reading for the Plot and The Melodramatic Imagination, both of which have been frequently reprinted and translated into multiple languages. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, London Review of Books, and elsewhere.