Upcoming Seminar

Seminar 15

 

The School of Humanities & Languages and the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney present a lecture by

Peggy Kamuf, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative
Literature at the University of Southern California

"Competent Fictions: On Belief in the Humanities"

Friday 19 March, 6.00pm
Edmund Barton Room
Sydney Grammar School
College St, Darlinghurst

RSVP essential to writing@uws.edu.au for catering purposes

Professor Kamuf is the 2006 winner of the René C. Wellek Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory from the American Comparative Literature Association for "Book of Addresses" (Stanford, 2005). Her other publications include "The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction" (University of Chicago Press, 1997), "Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship" (Cornell, 1988), and "Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise" (Nebraska, 1982).