20/21 C. Colloquium: Emily Hayman “The World in a Word: Multilingual Fragments as World Literary Practice”

“The World in a Word: Multilingual Fragments as World Literary Practice”

Emily Hayman received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2014 and is currently a postdoctoral research associate for Yale-NUS College and a lecturer in Yale’s English Department. Her research combines a study of British modernism and contemporary literature with translation studies and women’s and gender studies in order to consider how the use of foreign languages signals moments of political and cultural conflict within predominantly monolingual English-language texts. She is working on a book manuscript entitled “Inimical Languages: Multilingual Conflicts in Twentieth-Century British Literature.”