Events

Scale, Data, and World Literature

Professor Eric Hayot (Penn State)
Thursday 11 May 2017
5pm

UCD Humanities Institute
Chaired by Prof. Margaret Kelleher (UCD)

Funded by the European Research Council and supported by the UCD Humanities Institute.

You are cordially invited to attend a lecture in the 2017 “SouthHem” Lecture Series 'Methodologies Across Borders’

“Scale, Data, and World Literature”

Professor Eric Hayot (Penn State)

Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State. He is the author of The Elements of Academic Style (2014); On Literary Worlds (2012); The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (2009); Sinographies: Writing China (2007); and Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel (2004). His research interests include Chinese comparative literature; modernism; modernity; worldedness and world literature; information and poetics; scalar theory; and media theory. Prof Hayot is the Director of the Penn State Centre for Humanities and Information.

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