MLA Convention, Los Angeles

On January 9, 2011 Toril Moi will give a paper called “Reading Philosophically: Attention, Adventure, Conviction”. The talk is part of a panel called “Beyond Critique: Reading after the Hermeneutics of Suspicion”. It will take place from 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. in the Platinum Salon C, at the J. W. Marriott hotel. The other panelists are Rita Felski (“Art Works as Nonhuman Actors”) and Sharon Marcus (“What About Ideology?”). The panel will be chaired by Bernard Rhie.

NHC application details

The National Humanities Center has now put up a website with all the application details for the two Summer Institutes for 2011: Christopher Ricks on T. S. Eliot’s poetry and Toril Moi on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.