October 2013 – b2o: boundary 2 online

b2o: boundary 2 online

Margaret Ferguson Elected President of the MLA

Congratulations to our world of modern language, to the entire MLA community, and to Margaret, who continues to help propel boundary 2 into the future.

“Keeping the humanities alive and thriving for students from kindergarten through college and beyond is the primary goal of University of California, Davis, Professor Margaret Ferguson as she becomes the 2014 president of the Modern Language Association. It is the world’s largest professional organization advocating for the teaching of language and literature.”

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October 17, 2013
A Conversation on the Secular Public

b2 contributors Stathis Gourgouris and Etienne Balibar meet at Columbia University on 21 October 2013 for a conversation on the secular public, in light of their recent work: Gourgouris’s Lessons in Secular Criticism and Balibar’s Saeculum: culture, religion, idéologie.

October 16, 2013
Bradley Fest wins Schachterle Prize

The Society for Literature, Science and Arts (SLSA) has awarded Bradley Fest the Schachterle Prize in recognition of his analysis of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and its reworking of the cultural consciousness surrounding the second nuclear age. The article was published by b2 in its Fall 2012 issue: The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.

Congratulations to Brad, with much appreciation for his work. We anticipate his interview with J. Hillis Miller.

Follow Bradley Fest’s blog here for his poetry, essays, insights and other scholarly work.

October 5, 2013
A Reading with Nuruddin Farah

Novelist Nuruddin Farah comes to Pittsburgh on November 8th @ 4pm in anticipation of b2’s commemoration and consideration of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism. He will read and offer commentary as part of a presentation co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s African Studies Program.

October 2, 2013