Category: General News
Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy Symposium
Attached please find a PDF for a symposium commemorating the parallel lives and legacies of Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy, supported by the Boston University Humanities Foundation. The Editorial Institute invites academic faculty, independent researchers, editors, conservators, and graduate students working on Mark Twain and/or Leo Tolstoy to submit abstracts for a conference analyzing the parallel lives and legacies of both authors on the centennial of their passing. As we hope to generate a conversation between disciplines, specialization in both authors is not necessary (but certainly welcome). For questions, please contact Alex Effgen at the Editorial Institute. To contribute, please send a short curriculum vitae and 300-word abstract to the above email by Wednesday, 26 May 2010.
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Meeting
The Editorial Institute is pleased to host a local meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW). On 28 April, at 5:00 pm, ALSCW members and their friends are invited to a performance entitled, An Afternoon with the Faun: Debussy and Mallarmé. Flute performance by Joe Armstrong. Reading by Rosanna Warren. The meeting will be held in Room 106 of 143 Bay State Road. For questions, please contact either Alex Effgen or the ALSCW. Please RSVP no later than 26 April.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Discussion
THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED. At 5:30pm, Ben Mazer, who recently completed his PhD at the Editorial Institute and is the editor of Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, April 2010), will lead a reading and discussion of Tuckerman's works with Harvard professor Stephen Burt (who wrote the introduction to the volume) and others. Representatives from HUP will offer the text at 40% discount for attendees. To learn more about the edition, see the HUP website. The event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP no later than 20 April to the Administrative Assistant.
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Meeting
The Editorial Institute is pleased to host a local meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW). On 24 March, at 5:00 pm, ALSCW members and their friends are invited to a discussion led by Paul Alpers (University of California at Berkeley; Smith College) entitled, Milton's Epic Similes: History and Aesthetics. The meeting will be held in Room 106 of 143 Bay State Road. For questions, please contact either Alex Effgen or the ALSCW. Please RSVP no later than 22 March.
Welcome Professor Marilyn Gaull
The Editorial Institute and Boston University welcome Professor Marilyn Gaull. She will be Research Professor in the Institute, from which she will edit her journal, The Wordsworth Circle.
T. S. Eliot Comes Home to Boston
The Editorial Institute is pleased to announce that one of its Directors, Professor Christopher Ricks, has been invited to prepare a full critical edition of the Poems of T. S. Eliot. The undertaking will complement publication of Eliot’s very extensive critical writings and of his letters, which are already being edited elsewhere.