This interactive masterclass will focus on an excerpt from Rita Felski’s forthcoming book Selective Affinities: Literature and New Critical Theory. A chapter titled “Alienation, Self-Realization and the Scandalously Unnecessary: Rahel Jaeggi and Zadie Smith” will be provided beforehand -- the download link can be found in the "Additional Information" section of your Eventbrite order confirmation email. You’re welcome to participate even if you don’t have time to do the reading!
Rita Felski is the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London’s School of the Arts. She is also John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia, former Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, and former editor of New Literary History. Her most recent books are Uses of Literature (2008), The Limits of Critique (2015), Hooked: Art and Attachment (2020) and a co-edited collection Love Etc: Essays on Contemporary Literature and Culture (2024). Her new book, Selective Affinities: Literature and New Critical Theory, will be published next year.
Location:
Arts Two 3.20 on QMUL’s Mile End campus: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/
This event is free to attend but please register in advance.
