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Research Seminar

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Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, with Anahid Nersessian (UCLA)

In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. In her new book, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, Anahid Nersessian offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each of these celebrated poems, revealing just how much they still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. This seminar will feature a reading from the introduction to Keats's Odes followed by discussion. The conversation is likely to cover such topics as the whiteness of literary studies, the uses of memoir for criticism, and what Marx's Capital can teach us about reading Keats.

Anahid Nersessian was born and raised in New York City. She attended Yale University as an undergraduate and got her Ph.D in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. After spending three years at Columbia University, she moved to Los Angeles, where she currently teaches in the English Department at UCLA on the unceded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples. She is the author of three books, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (Chicago, 2021), The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life (Chicago, 2020), and Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment (Harvard, 2015), and has published widely in top scholarly journals as well as in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. She also founded and co-edits the Thinking Literature series at the University of Chicago Press.

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