BU Faculty Create Survey of Travel Writing
A group of WLL faculty, joined by a few friends from Romance Studies, Classics, and History, have banded together to produce a survey of travel writing around the world and across several centuries. The group met frequently throughout 2014-2015, culminating in a one-day conference at BU in 2015.
Now eight papers elaborated from their projects are forthcoming from ILEX (distributed by Harvard University Press) under the title Illusions and Disillusionment: Travel Writers in the Modern Age.
The WLL contributors are Sarah Frederick, Margaret Litvin, Roberta Micallef, and Sunil Sharma; the editor is Roberta Micallef. The project follows on an earlier WLL collaboration: Micallef, Roberta and Sunil Sharma (eds.) On the Wonders of Land Sea: Persianate Travel Writing. Boston: Ilex, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013.
On Wonders of the Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing, available to view here.