The University of California, Riverside English graduate department will be hosting the sixth annual CINtax film forum on April 12, 2008.
This unique event encourages academic and independent filmmakers from
the United States and abroad to attend and to participate in dialogue
with the curators and audience about the short films. CINtax's theme
this year is (ID)entity, and the screened films will engage with such
issues as identity politics, subjectivity, representation, and performativity. We are currently looking for submissions! Please Keynote Speaker: Mark McGurl
University of California, Los Angeles
"Translated People, or, (dis)Locating the Transnational Turn"
After graduating from Harvard, Mark McGurl worked at The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, then earned his PhD in Comparative Literature from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins. Since arriving at UCLA, he has published in journals such as Representations, Critical Inquiry and American Literary History, and has held fellowships from Stanford Humanities Center and the Office of the President of the University of California.
Published by Princeton University Press in 2001, his first book, The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James, examines the transformation of the status of the novel beginning in the late-nineteenth century, mapping the upward mobility of the genre to period discourses of social class and to emergent conceptions of mental labor and social space.
His second book, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, is entitled The Program Era: Postwar Fiction in the System of Higher Education. It rereads postwar fiction in light of the rise of the creative writing program, the writer-in-residency, and other novel forms of university involvement in the production of American literature. He teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate classes in American literature and related topics.
Visit www.markmcgurl.com for more information about our speaker.