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Auerbach’s Afterlives: A Symposium on the Work of Erich Auerbach

More than half a century after his death, Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) continues to provoke thought. His legacy and the many afterlives of his work traditionally include discussions of the nature of U.S. Comparative Literature, the concept of World Literature, and exilic consciousness writ large. This symposium revisits Auerbach’s work in both Mimesis and other essays in the company of a new set of companion thinkers and texts, including Baudrillard, Borges, de Man, Harnack, Heidegger, Jameson, Kantorowicz, and Allen Tate, and asks us to rethink Auerbach on Dante, Montaigne, Pascal, Shakespeare, and Woolf in conversation with their critical and theoretical works. Request abstracts from Professor Jane O. Newman after 5 January, 2014 (jonewman@uci.edu).

With Papers by: Willie Chase, Peter Cibula, Matt Cooper, James Funk, Laura Hatch, Andrew Hill, David Lamme, and Kirsty Singer

Respondents: Professor Emily Apter (Department of French, NYU) and Professor Aamir Mufti (Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA)