You are cordially invited to a workshop and a lecture by Professor Lucia Boldrin (Goldsmiths, University of London; AHI visiting fellow), who will be giving a workshop on “Teaching Difficult Texts” (2-2.40pm) followed by a 20 min break/refreshments. At 3pm, she will be speaking on “Biographical Fictions and/as World Literature”.
Biography
Lucia Boldrini is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she directs the Centre for Comparative Literature. Her main areas of research are fictional biography and autobiography; Joyce, Dante and modernist medievalism; comparative literature; and literature on and from the Mediterranean area. Her publications include: Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction, edited with Julia Novak (Palgrave, 2017); Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction (Routledge, 2012); Medieval Joyce (Rodopi, 2002); Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations (Cambridge UP, 2001). She is Editor-in-Chief, with Michael Lackey and Monica Latham, of the Bloomsbury “Biofiction” book series. She is an elected member of the Academia Europaea, and currently serves as President of the International Comparative Literature Association.