Lunch With Montgomery Fellow André Aciman

André Aciman received his Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College.

April 27, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Montgomery Fellow House
Sponsored by
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Audience
Public
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Amanda Skinner

ANDRÉ ACIMAN

Position: Distinguished Professor
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University

Research Interests: Marcel Proust; The Literature of Seventeenth-Century France; Madame de LaFayette; The Psychological Novel and the roman d'analyse; Memoirs and Memory in the Twentieth Century

André Aciman received his Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College. Before coming to The Graduate Center, he taught at Princeton University and Bard College.

Although his specialty is in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English, French and Italian literature (he wrote his dissertation on Madame de LaFayette's La Princesse de Clèves), he is especially interested in the theory of the psychological novel (roman d'analyse) across boundaries and eras. In addition to teaching the history of literary theory, he teaches the work of Marcel Proust and the literature of memory and exile. André Aciman is executive o cer of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature and the director of The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center.

He is the author of the memoir Out of Egypt, and of two collections of essays, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory and Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere. He has co–authored and edited The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. He is also the author of three novels, Call Me by Your Name, Eight White Nights, and of the forthcoming Harvard Square. His books have appeared in many languages. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.

Location
Montgomery Fellow House
Sponsored by
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Audience
Public
Registration required
More information
Amanda Skinner