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For Whom Is the ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ Joyce?: Alternative Receptions of James Joyce in Russia(n)

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 5:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall, Faculty Lounge (Room 135), 34th and Walnut Streets

Join the Theorizing Colloquium Series in welcoming Dr. José Vergara, an associate professor of ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ at the Bryn Mawr College and the author ofÌýÌý(Cornell University Press, 2021).ÌýThe story of James Joyce’s presence in ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ literature has often been told as a tale of literary influence long disrupted by Soviet power, though ultimately incorporated into the tradition. But who is left out of such a history? Beyond serving as a modernist icon for predominantly male writers, how else has Joyce impacted Russophone letters?ÌýDuring his visit to U Penn, Dr. Vergara willÌýexplore how Joyce’s iconoclastic approaches to parenthood, gender, and exile have yielded equally significant responses from a mother who lost a son to the Gulag, a group of lesbian writers, and a Ukrainian refugee.