Conferenza: 15 MARZO 2023 prof. Russ Castronovo, American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability


20/02/2023

The Doctoral Program in Studies in English Literatures, Language, and Translation

 Sapienza University of Rome

in collaboration with the

Centro Studi Americani

 

presents a lecture by

 

Russ Castronovo

Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies

at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

titled

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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