20/02/2023
The Doctoral Program in Studies in English Literatures, Language, and Translation Sapienza University of Romein collaboration with the
Centro Studi Americani presents a lecture by
Russ CastronovoTom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studiesat the University of Wisconsin-Madisontitled
American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability Wednesday, March 15, 11 a.m.
Centro Studi Americani
Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32
Professor Castronovo is the author of numerous books, including:
Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America (New York, Oxford University Press, 2014)
Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)
Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995);
His essays (on Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, and Ralph Waldo Emerson) have appeared in journals such as
The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists,
ELN,
Critical Inquiry,
boundary 2,
American Literary History,
New Literary History,
American Literature,
PMLA.
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