http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/ The newsblog for LIT@MIT. en Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 May 2008 12:43:15 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mary Fuller

Remembering the Early Modern Voyage: English Narratives in the Age of European Expansion
Palgrave Macmillan, May 2008  Noel Jackson

Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
Cambridge University Press, March 2008  Diana Henderson

Alternative Shakespeares 3
Routledge, January 2008   Wyn Kelley

Herman Melville: An Introduction
Blackwell Publishing, January 2008   Sarah Brouillette

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Palgrave, 2007   James Buzard

Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace
University of Virginia Press, 2007
Co-editor   Diana Henderson

Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media
Cornell University Press   Wyn Kelley

A Companion to Herman Melville
Blackwell Publishing Editor Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
Bedford/St. Martin's
Editor   Henry Jenkins

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
New York University Press Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture
New York University Press The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
New York University Press

]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2008/05/new_book_releases.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2008/05/new_book_releases.php Faculty Work Mon, 12 May 2008 12:43:15 -0500 MIT Writers Series presents Jhumpa Lahiri: winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri's first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003 and a film version was released in 2007. Her new book of short stories, entitled Unaccustomed Earth, will be published in 2008. Tuesday - March 4, 2008 7:00 pm - MIT Room 32-123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA (for directions go to: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg) Free and open to the public - no tickets/reservations required. For information call 617-253-7894. Sponsored by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, the Literature Section and Foreign Languages and Literatures "There is nothing accidental about her success; her plots are as elegantly constructed as a fine proof in mathematics." -- The New York Times Book Review "She has talent -- magical, sly, cumulative -- that most writers would kill for." -- Guardian (UK)   Click here to view poster.]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2008/03/an_evening_with_jhumpa_lahiri_1.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2008/03/an_evening_with_jhumpa_lahiri_1.php Events Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:02:30 -0500 Please note: Teas will resume on Monday, February 11th. Every Monday except holidays 4:30 - 6:00pm in 14N-417 In our ongoing efforts to provide more occasions for the Literature community at MIT to have fun, provide support, and be visible to each other, we are initiating a weekly Monday "afternoon tea" (with coffee and cookies too). All with an affection for Literature are welcome -- students, concentrators, minors, majors, staff and faculty! Drop by, make it a time to catch up with a friend or confer about classes with a fellow student or a faculty or staff person, to consult about minor or major issues in a less formal context, to hatch great plans for the future, etc. questions: lit@mit.edu or 253-3581 ]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2008/02/literature_tea_time.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2008/02/literature_tea_time.php Events Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Acclaimed writer Vikram Chandra will give a public reading from his latest book, Sacred Games, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on Monday November 5 at 6:30pm in room 6-120. This event is free and no tickets or reservations are required. The reading is sponsored by the MIT Literature Faculty with assistance from the MIT Council for the Arts, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, and the Cultural Council of the Indian Diaspora.

Born and raised in New Delhi, Chandra attended Film School at Columbia University in New York, where he was inspired to write his first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain; it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. He has also written the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay, for which he won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His most recent book, the celebrated Sacred Games, has been called "a great novel, perhaps the greatest book on Bombay ever written" (Hindustan Times). His work has been translated into 15 languages.

Chandra splits his time between Berkeley, where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of California, and Mumbai.

For additional information please contact Joli Divon Saraf at joli@mit.edu or the MIT Literature Section at (617) 258-5629  

]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/10/an_evening_with_vikram_chandra.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/10/an_evening_with_vikram_chandra.php Events Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:44:40 -0500 Professor David Thorburn recently published his poem Lise in the October 2007 issue of The Atlantic.

To read the poem, click here [PDF].  
October 2007 issue ]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/09/thorburns_poetry_in_the_atlant_1.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/09/thorburns_poetry_in_the_atlant_1.php Faculty Work Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:20:18 -0500 Previous Literature Award winners: The 2005-06 Achievement Award in Literary Studies has been shared by two outstanding majors: Jocelyn Rodal (21L) Thomas Schilling (21L and 3).]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/05/literature_award_winners_annou_1.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/05/literature_award_winners_annou_1.php Awards Thu, 03 May 2007 15:06:40 -0500 10-250, Note: room changed to 10-250 Jamaica Kincaid is a celebrated Caribbean-American author whose work is noted for its simple elegant prose that carries the weight of her controversial subjects. Kincaid is an accomplished novelist and essayist who began as a columnist for the New Yorker and has since published five novels, a collection of short stories, two essay collections, and the long essay "A Small Place," which is one of the most outspoken critiques of British colonization in Anglophone literature. Her subject matter includes the love and hatred between a mother and daughter, her brother's death from HIV/AIDS, the process of becoming a writer from a black woman's perspective, and the pleasures and politics of gardening. Jamaica Kincaid is currently a visiting professor at Harvard University where she teaches courses on creative writing, autobiography and Anglophone Caribbean women writers. Open to: the general public Sponsor(s): Literature Section, With assistance from the MIT Council for the Arts, and the Program in Women's Studies For more information, contact: Joli Divon Saraf 617/253-3581 joli@mit.edu ]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/04/literature_special_reading_wit.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/04/literature_special_reading_wit.php News Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:30:18 -0500 Stephen Tapscott recently published two poems, Valentine: Faith and Valentine: Invention, in the January/February 2006 edition of the MIT Faculty Newsletter. To read them, click here.]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/04/tapscotts_poetry_in_mit_facult.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/04/tapscotts_poetry_in_mit_facult.php Faculty Work Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:06:01 -0500 http://web.mit.edu/litsociety/www/ for more information.]]> http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/04/mit_literary_society.php http://lit.mit.edu/spotlight/2007/04/mit_literary_society.php Events Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:38:43 -0500