The Department of Studies in Culture and Cultures Vultures reading club invite everyone to a talk: "The sense of place in contemporary popular imagination. The construction of a character in The Affair" by Professor Alena Smiešková from Comenius University in Bratislava (Dec 7, 6:30 PM on ZOOM).
The talk deals with the spatial paradigm and how increasingly important it has become in contemporary culture. The focus of the talk is to describe the protagonist of The Affair (2014 - 2019 Showtime TV series) Alison Bailey as a character tied to the place where she has lived, and died - culturally, socially, and symbolically, and to examine how her story is also a story of American culture, and the medium in which it is presented.
"The sense of place in contemporary popular imagination. The construction of a character in The Affair"
by
prof. Alena Smiešková
When? Tuesday, December 7, 6:30 PM
Where? Join us on ZOOM (Meeting ID: 864 9281 3502, Passcode: 6VaqnC)
Alena Smiešková is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she teaches and lectures courses on contemporary American literature and culture with the specific focus on ethnicity, film, and the role of visual culture in contemporary art. She is the author of a book on Philip Roth, and postmodernism, and co-authored the book on ethnic writing. She has also published on film, and literature in national, and international publications. She was a Fulbright scholar at the UCSC in 2009 at the Center for Cultural Studies, and spend a year at Indiana University, Bloomington as a part of the non-degree program at the Department of English funded by the Open Society Fund (1995 - 1996). Her research is often interdisciplinary and at present it is focused on representations of city in diverse cultural forms. She founded and served as an editor-in-chief on the editorial board of Ars Aeterna journal (from 2009 - 2018). She was also the head of the Czech and Slovak Association of American Studies.
