Master Class with J. Hillis Miller

7 Mar 2012 - 14:00 / 7 Mar 2012 - 16:00

Jackman Humanities Institute, room 1040.
U of T
Toronto

The Centre for Comparative Literature is pleased to present a special opportunity for graduate students at the University of Toronto

Master Class with J. Hillis Miller

Professor J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California-Irvine. 

Hillis Miller holds honorary degrees as Doctor of Letters from the Univrsity of Florida, Doctor of Humane Letters at Bucknell University, and Doctor Honoris Cause at the University of Zaragoza. He is also Honorary Professor of Peking University and past president of the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Irvine, Hillis Miller taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. His research interests are in the areas of Victorian literature, modern English and American literature of the nineteenth-and twentieth-centuries, comparative literature, and literary theory. He has published many essays and reviews and is an editor of various literary journals. Among Hillis Miller’s books are Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels; The Disappearance of God; Poets of Reality; The Form of Victorian Fiction; Fiction and Repetition; The Linguistic Moment; The Ethics of Reading; Hawthorne and History; Ariadne’s Thread; Illustration; Victorian Subjects; Tropes, Parables, Performatives; Theory Now and Then; New Starts; and Topographies. Among his recent books are: Reading Narrative from Oklahoma Press, Black Holes from Stanford Press, Speech Acts in Literature, from Stanford University Press, Others, from Princeton University Press, and Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James, from Fordham University Press.

He will present the keynote address at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature, on the theme of “An Aesthetic of Absence”. 

Registration for the master class does not mean you are registered for the conference.  To register for the conference, please visit:  http://conference.complit.utoronto.ca/Absence/

Participants in this event will receive an emailed package of readings which they will be expected to prepare before attending.