Professor Merve Emre, Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, will speak on “the role and relevance of critics in contemporary culture.”

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary, The Personality Brokers (selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and The Spectator), The Ferrante Letters, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. Her honors include the Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. A contributing writer at The New Yorker, she is also the host of the podcast “The Critic and Her Publics” for the New York Review of Books.

Sponsored by the Department of English.

This event is free and open to the public.