UVA professor Ramazani to lead panel on ‘Poetry of the First Global War’ Feb. 22
Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shannon Professor and University Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will lead a panel discussion with University of Maine faculty focused on his article, “‘Cosmopolitan Sympathies’: Poetry of the First Global War.”
The panelists will discuss the article in relation to their own work in modern and contemporary poetry and the history of ideas from 2–3:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in the Bangor Room, Memorial Union. Panelists will include Zachary Ludington, assistant professor of Spanish; Carla Billitteri, associate professor of English; Frédéric Rondeau, assistant professor of French; and Michael Lang, associate professor of history.
Ramazani is a distinguished scholar of modern and contemporary poetry in English, especially with regard to questions of postcolonialism and globalization. He has lectured widely and received many important awards and honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This event is free and open to the public, and is part of the 2018–2019 McGillicuddy Humanities Center symposium, “War Without End: The Legacies of World War I.”
For more information, contact Ludington, 581.2079; zachary.r.ludington@maine.edu.