Abstract

Merve Emre will give a lecture entitled ‘Love Is Not Being Devoured’ in Little Hall (Sidgwick Site) at 5.30 p.m. this Thursday, 19th June to which all are most welcome.

The lecture forms the keynote of a workshop on ‘Critical Love Studies’ but participation in the workshop is not a requirement for attendance at the lecture.

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017), The Personality Brokers (2018), and (with Sarah Chihaya, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards) The Ferrante Letters (2019); Professor Emre is also editor of Once and Future Feminist (2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (2021). Among her current projects is a book entitled Love and Other Useless Pursuits for Norton / Harper Collins.

Any enquiries to criticalloves@english.cam.ac.uk.