“Caring for Antigone: The Delinquent Child and Sophie Deraspe’s Cinematic Pharmacopoetics”Plenary Lecture by Maria Margaroni, July 22, 2024

The 14th Institute for World Literature  session will meet from July 8 through August 1, 2024 at the University of Cyprus. Our The four-week program includes a total of ten two-week seminars two week seminars taught by leading names in world literature today, together with outstanding guest lectures and the opportunity for participants to share their work in colloquia. Our The participants will have the chance to examine critically the latest challenges of this comprehensive and rapidly developing field, from its theoretical concepts and the history of the discipline to its forms of practice today embedded in a world market.
In addition to attending seminars, our the participants will give a paper or present a work in progress or a recent project within one of our the nine colloquia organized around broad themes: World Literature and Production, World Literature and Circulation, World Literature and Translation, Postcolonialism and World Literature, World Cinema and World Literature, Premodern Literature and World Literature, Sociology and World Literature, and Politics, Poetics and World Literature, and including as of this year the Balzan Colloquium. Meeting once each week with their peers under the leadership of one of our the postdoc or faculty participants, they have the opportunity to share their work and receive valuable feedback from scholars all over the world working on similar topics, and develop new projects including future ACLA seminars.

Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus. She has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (University of Leeds). She has published extensively on the work of Julia Kristeva in peer-reviewed journals and collected volumes. She is the co-author of Julia Kristeva: Live Theory (with John Lechte, Continuum, 2004). Other publications include three special issues and four edited volumes, most recently Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma (with Arleen Ionescu, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) and Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2023).