‘Genres and Writing in the Digital Age’
Dino Felluga, Laurel Brake and Helen Rogers
When: Friday 13 May 2016, 3:00-9:00pm Where: Birkbeck Cinema and G01, Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PDThis is a free event, and registration is not required.
Please note that this event will start at 3pm, not at 3.30pm as previously advertised.
Dino Felluga (Purdue):
‘Novel-Poetry: The Problem of Form, or the New Formalism’
Abstract: This presentation offers a new theory of genre and responds to recent scholarly trends that have been placed under the umbrella term, New Formalism (including ‘surface poetics’, ‘strategic formalism’, and ‘historical poetics’). The paper also offers a defense of humanities scholarship and of politically inflected approaches to formal issues.
Materials will be distributed in advance of the event, please write to c19@bbk.ac.uk.
6pm Panel: Digital Futures
Room G01
Laurel Brake (Birkbeck), ‘Resplendent Advertising’
Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores University), ‘Genre and Academic Writing’
Dino Felluga (Purdue), ‘Momentous Editions: Responding to the Crisis Facing the Humanities’*
* Please note we will be doing live editing during this event. Do bring your laptop.
See Laurel Brake in conversation with James Mussell in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: Digital Nineteenth-Century Serials for the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation
Read Dino’s article in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Eventuality of the Digital