J Hillis Miller is one of the great literary critics of the twentieth (and twenty-first) century. As a reader of Victorian and Modernist literature he is unsurpassed and as an explicator of contemporary critical thought he has few equals. He has also written on ethics, politics, cultural studies, theology, visual art, philosophy, the university, the internet and other ‘black holes’.
From 27-30 May 2008 J Hillis Miller will be the Visiting Fellow in Critical Consciousness at the University of Leeds. He will be conducting two seminars open to all graduate students and staff of the University.
Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:30 – 16:30, LHRI Seminar Room 3
“Getting a handle on Derrida on Nancy: absolute mourning”
Thursday 29 May 2008, 14:00 – 17:00, LHRI Seminar Room 3
“Communities in Holocaust Novels: Keneally, McEwan, Spiegelman, Kertesz”
On Friday 30 May 2008 a one day conference, to mark his 80th birthday, will celebrate and consider Miller’s career as a critic and theorist.
CC3: jhillismiller@80.edu
30th May 2008,
Centenary Gallery,
University of Leeds
Speakers: Graham Allen (Cork)
Derek Attridge (York)
Rachel Bowlby (UCL)
Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway)
Simon Morgan- wortham (Portsmouth)
Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough)
Guest Respondent: J Hillis Miller
(Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature UCI)
Conference Organiser: Martin McQuillan (Leeds)
Admission is free but by e-ticket only. To register for this event, contact vpatemp@leeds.ac.uk
6 PGR students or Early-Career staff from the Faculties of Arts and PVAC are sought, for this event, to present short 10 minute papers on any aspect of J Hillis Miller’s work. Interested parties should send a title and abstract to m.g.mcquillan@leeds.ac.uk
For some, this will be a unique opportunity to experience the work of a ‘Yale School’ seminar and to participate in a world-class compartivist graduate training. For more information on Critical Consciousness visit:
www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/org/crco/index.html
Critical Consciousness:
Across the arts and humanities and cognate disciplines critical thinking is the guarantee of the academic facility to question, to assert and to publish all that is required by research, knowledge and theory.
The Critical Consciousness series promotes critical thinking as a key skill across the arts, humanities and cognate disciplines. The aim in to support the development of critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, effective communication, logical and independent thought, and related skills in information literacy as research skills. The series presents training in these generic skills in order to facilitate the University’s aim of increasing the proportion of staff engaged in internationally-excellent research. It is also dedicated to the academic training and support of Post-Graduate students and early career staff as critical thinkers.
