When: Thursday April 20th; 6:00 PM
Where: In-person at the English Department Event Space at 244 Greene Street, 1st floor, NYC; online on Zoom
All in-person guests not affiliated with NYU must carry proof of vaccination (fully vaccinated plus the booster: 3 shots minimum for Pfizer and Moderna).
Nico Israel is a professor of English Literature at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and at Hunter College. Professor Israel’s areas of expertise include twentieth-century British, Irish, U.S. and European literature; literary and critical theory; and art history and visual culture. His primary research is in modernist studies. He also works in the fields of post-1945 literature, post-colonial and globalization studies, translation studies and “World” literature. Professor Israel is the author of two books, Outlandish: Writing between Exile and Diaspora (Stanford, 2000) and Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (Columbia, 2015). He has also published numerous academic essays on modernist and contemporary literature and theory and over 75 pieces on contemporary visual art, many of them for Artforum.
