Kevin Attell

February 18, 2011

Friday, February 18 at 4:00, LC 319.  The 20th-21st-Century Colloquium presents: Kevin Attell, Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University, was awarded a Ph.D. from Berkeley and was a Mellon Fellow at Johns Hopkins University before coming to Cornell. He is working on two books, one on the encyclopedic novel in the twentieth century, the other on the relations between work by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.  Kevin has also translated two of Agamben’s books and several essays.  He will begin teaching Cornell in January of 2008, teaching English 469, The Paranoid Style in Contemporary American Fiction and Film, and English 270, The Reading of Fiction.

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