Join the Theorizing Colloquium Series in welcoming Dr. José Vergara, an associate professor of Russian at the Bryn Mawr College and the author of All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature (Cornell University Press, 2021). The story of James Joyce’s presence in Russian literature has often been told as a tale of literary influence long disrupted by Soviet power, though ultimately incorporated into the tradition. But who is left out of such a history? Beyond serving as a modernist icon for predominantly male writers, how else has Joyce impacted Russophone letters? During his visit to U Penn, Dr. Vergara will explore how Joyce’s iconoclastic approaches to parenthood, gender, and exile have yielded equally significant responses from a mother who lost a son to the Gulag, a group of lesbian writers, and a Ukrainian refugee.
Co-sponsored by Russian and Eastern European Studies
Location: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Faculty Lounge (Room 135), 34th and Walnut Streets