Panel Discussion: "Influx & Efflux" by Jane Bennett

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Join the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality for a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of Jane Bennett's new book, Influx & Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman. Bennett will be joined by panelists Branka Arsić, Blaz Skerjanec, Dora Malech, and Nidesh Lawtoo.

• Branka Arsić is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (Harvard 2016), On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (Harvard 2010), and Passive Constitutions or 7½ Times Bartleby (Stanford 2007). She has published widely on 19th-century American literatures, materialisms, and ecological and cosmological theories.
• Blaz Skerjanec is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
• Dora Malech is an assistant professor in The Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of four books of poetry: Flourish (Carnegie Mellon 2020), Stet (Princeton 2018), Say So (Cleveland State 2011) and Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser 2009). She is currently working on an anthology on the American sonnet tradition.
• Nidesh Lawtoo is an assistant professor of English literature at the University of Leuven. He is the author of The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (Michigan State 2013), Conrads Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory* (Michigan State 2016), and (New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth (Michigan State 2019). His work on modernist literature, postcolonialism, critical theory, and mimesis has been published widely, and he is currently completing a new book, Violence and the Unconscious: Catharsis to Contagion.