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The 2021-2022 Edward Surtz Lecture in the Humanities: "Texts and the City: Literature and the Longue Durée"

The 2021-2022 Edward Surtz Lecture in the Humanities: "Texts and the City: Literature and the Longue Durée"

Alexander Beecroft is the Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of South Carolina and author of Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation (Cambridge University Press, 2010), An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Verso, 2015), and many articles and essays. His current book project, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, is A Global History of Literature.

This annual endowed lecture honors the memory and scholarship of Edward L. Surtz, S.J., a beloved member of the Loyola faculty and distinguished scholar of early modern literature and Renaissance humanism.

The lecture will be held by Zoom Webinar on March 21, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. CT. Register in advance at this address:

https://luc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i-9cQmHGQY6ZDYXrSRXHsQ