FEMINISM / REALISM: ELENA FERRANTE

December 8, 2016
6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Heyman Center, Common Room
Columbia University
New York, New York
FEMINISM / REALISM: ELENA FERRANTE

Alessia Ricciardi (Professor Of Italian And Comparative Literature, Northwestern University) discussing “A Story of Entrustment: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels”

 

David Kurnick (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University) discussing “Ferrante Talk and the Scales of Contemporary Realism”

 

Respondent: Rebecca Falkoff (Assistant Professor of Italian, NYU)

 

Read Rebecca Falkoff’s “To Translate is To Betray: on the Elena Ferrante Phenomenon in Italy and the US” in Public Books

 

Read David Kurnick’s “Ferrante, in History” in Public Books

 
 

Co-sponsored with Columbia University’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Society of Fellows; Heyman Center for the Humanities; and Department of Italian.