The English Department is pleased to announce its next Americanist Seminar speaker, Nan Z. Da, who joined the English faculty this year. Nan will speak on "Intransitive Transnationalisms" at 5:00 pm Tuesday, October 14, in 119 DeBartolo.
Using examples from nineteenth-century Sino-US "exchange," this talk provokes us to wonder if transnationalism, a rhetoric and methodology that depends on the consequentiality of literary-cultural contact, was a historical phenomenon that produced the very romance of literary impact. It shows there to be a logical, if paradoxical, relationship between what transnationalism makes us believe the literature of others can do, and the minimal adjustments that describes so much of transnational interactions.