[Anthropgrad] Work-in-Progress Seminar - WEDNESDAY 22 April - Paul Giles

[Sharon Komidar]

The Research School of Humanities presents,
 Work-in-Progress Seminar Series 

1- 2.30 pm, Wednesday 22nd April, Theatrette, Old Canberra House

EMPIRES UPSIDE DOWN: AUSTRALASIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICAN
LITERATURE 

Professor Paul Giles, 

Professor of American Literature, Faculty of English, University of
Oxford

 

This paper will offer a first version of the opening chapter of a new
book project on which I am currently embarking, which concerns ways in
which American literary culture has been shaped over the past 225 years
by engagement with Australasia. While there has been much written about
the "Americanization" of Australia, particularly in the second half
twentieth century, consideration of "Australianization" of the United
States are much less common. It will investigate reasons for the
relative theoretical invisibility of such interconnections, despite the
plentiful empirical evidence of such engagements over the past two
centuries.

 

Paul Giles is Professor of American Literature at the University of
Oxford, UK. Among his books are Atlantic Republic: The American
Tradition in English Literature (OUP, 2006); Virtual Americas:
Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke UP, 2002);
Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of
American Literature, 1730-1860 (Pennsylvania, 2001); American Catholic
Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (CUP, 1992); Hart
Crane: The Contexts of The Bridge (CUP, 1986). He served as Director of
the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford between 2003 and 2008, and
as President of the International American Studies Association between
2005 and 2007.

 

Convenors: Ken Taylor and Stephen Foster
For general enquiries please contact: 
Phone: 6125 2434
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