Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Nergis Ertürk, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University
Date:
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 16:00 to 18:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
501 Cathedral of Learning
Cost:
Free
Nergis Ertürk is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2011), the recipient of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book. In 2008, she won the William Riley Parker Prize for her essay, "Modernity and Its Fallen Languages: Tanpınar's Hasret, Benjamin's Melancholy," which appeared in PMLA. Her article, “Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey,” appeared in boundary 2, and her research has also appeared in a wide-ranging collection of prominent literary works.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
European Studies Center
Global Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors:
Department of Film Studies
boundary 2
World Regions:
International
Russia/Eastern Europe