Spanish Studies, LAIS Program, Experimental Humanities Program, and Division of Languages and Literature Present
A Student Conference
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Preston Theater
Is the Author Dead? Haunted by the Ghost of Cervantes
Join us December 2, 4, and 9.Miguel de Cervantes’s first modern novel, Don Quixote, is a work intra-textually attributed to a fictional Moorish author, at a time when the Moors were being expelled from Spain. Authors trapped in fiction are sometimes persecuted, and then killed by their characters; others feel terrified, and become invisible as they hide behind the lines they write. Lastly, some authors are dead (or said to be dead), and speak to us from their tombs. What are the changing ways in which the ghostly figure of the author returns to fiction? What does it mean to be an author? With an emphasis on Spanish literature put in conversation with Latin American and Portuguese literatures, this conference invites to reflect on the notion of authorship as it was originally redefined with the birth of modern novel in Golden Age Spain, and reshaped during Romanticism and contemporary times.
All panel discussions will be in English. Open to the Bard Community.
For further information, please contact Prof. López-Gay [email protected], or student conference committee members:
Hilda Puig, [email protected]
Benjamin Newman, [email protected]
Daniel Schutrum-Boward, [email protected]
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Location: Preston Theater