Last updated by kprzemek on 2017-10-24. Originally submitted by admin on 2017-10-16.
Department of American Literature has the pleasure to announce a guest lecture by a Yale scholar and UAM and Harvard graduate dr Marta Figlerowicz: “Economy-Sized Giants: First-person Experience in the Digital Age”. Time: October 20th (Friday), 11:30; Venue: ROOM C1, Collegium Novum. Everybody is welcome!
Abstract: “Economy-Sized Giants" is part of a book-length project on the phenomenology of first-person experience in the digital age. I examine some recent representations, in film as well as sculpture, of human beings who are fantastically out-of-scale in relation to their environments. I then explore more general philosophical and aesthetic questions that these gargantuan figures pose about our changing relationship to individual agency and self-expression.
Marta Figlerowicz is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale, and the author of two books: Flat Protagonists (2016) and Spaces of Feeling (2017). A comparative critical theorist, she works across genres and periods with a particular focus on representations of self-awareness and interpersonal awareness. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as New Literary History, Poetics Today, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, and symploke, as well as in popular-audience venues including n+1, Cabinet, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, which she joined as a Junior Fellow in 2013.
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