Clara Tuite to take part in debate at NASSR 2019

Professor Clara Tuite will take part in a debate with Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at the upcoming 27th annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.

This year's NASSR conference, Romantic Elements, will be co-hosted by The University of Chicago and The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) from August 8-11, 2019. Professor Tuite's debate with Associate Professor Cohen-Vrignaud will form part of a new NASSR series on key theoretical texts in the study of Romanticism entitled “Debating the Elements”.

Debating the Elements

Confirmed "Debating the Elements" participants:

On A.O. Lovejoy’s “On the Meaning of Romanticism for the Historian of Ideas”:
Ian Balfour (York U, Canada)
Manu Chander (Rutgers, Newark)

On Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl” and “Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner“:
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (U Tennessee)
Clara Tuite (U Melbourne)

On Paul de Man’s “Rhetoric of Temporality”:
Joseph Albernaz (Columbia U)
William Galperin (Rutgers U)

Image: J. M. W. Turner, Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm (1836), Art Institute of Chicago