BEAUVOIR STUDIES TODAY: WHAT PLACE FOR LITERATURE IN A POSTDISCIPLINARY WORLD?

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR SOCIETY AT THE 2018 MLA 269
Friday, January 5, 2018, 10:15-11:30am, Harlem (Hilton)

Serious interest in the writing of Simone de Beauvoir is undergoing something of a renaissance. Within philosophy, she has emerged from Sartre’s shadow and is now recognized as a major twentieth-century social thinker; new translations have made her ideas accessible to anglophone readers as never before. Yet even though Beauvoir herself ranked her novels among her most satisfying achievements, literary studies seems to have lagged behind. What happens next?

Speakers
Meryl Altman (DePauw U)
Alexander Antonopoulos (Concordia U)
Maria-Isabel Corbi-Saez (U of Alicante)
Gwendolyn Dolske (California State Polytechnic U, Pomona)
Kathryn Gines (Penn State U, University Park)
Kyoo Lee (John Jay C, City U of New York)
Qrescent Mali Mason (Berea C)
Verónica Zebadúa Yánez (New School)
Presiding
Meryl Altman (DePauw U)

​Read the papers HERE