Commemorating Henry James /
Commemoration in Henry James
2016 International Henry James Conference
9-11 June 2016; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
and
The Houghton Library, Harvard University
9-11 June 2016; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
and
The Houghton Library, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Henry James Society
The theme of the 2016 International Henry James Conference, slated for 9-11 June (Thursday through Saturday) at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and the Houghton Library, Harvard, will be “Commemorating Henry James / Commemoration in Henry James.” Papers and panels are invited to address any aspect of that bilateral topic, as its critical contours have shifted in the century since the writer’s death in 1916. For the complete call for papers, click here.
Conference attendees seeking directions to Brandeis University can download them here. Conference inquiries to Michael Anesko ([email protected]) or Greg Zacharias ([email protected])
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Denis Donoghue was born in Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland on December 1, 1928. He grew up in an equally small town called Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland, about which he later wrote a memoir, "Warrenpoint." His youngling years as a professor were spent in University College, Dublin, except for an interlude in the English Faculty, Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. In his middle years he joined the faculty of New York University as the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters, a title he inherited from Leon Edel when Edel left NYU for Hawaii. He has written one book and a few essays on W.B.Yeats, one book and a smaller few essays on Walter Pater, and one book and several essays on T.S.Eliot. Other books on The American Classics, on Beauty, and on Eloquence. No book on HJ, only a small few essays and an Introduction to "The Golden Bowl." His most recent book is "Metaphor" (Harvard, 2014).
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Allegra Goodman's novels include "The Cookbook Collector," "Kaaterskill Falls," (a finalist for the National Book Award), and "Intuition." Her short fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker" and in "Best American Short Stories." She studied English and philosophy at Harvard and earned her PhD in English from Stanford in 1997. She has been the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her next novel will appear in 2017.
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Michael Gorra's Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. He is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he as taught since 1985. Earlier books include The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany and After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie, along with editions of works by James, Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner. He has received fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the Balakian Citation of the National Book Critics Circle for his work as a reviewer. His keynote at the conference is called "At the Graves of Henry James."
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