Visiting Hurst Professor: Jahan Ramazani, Lecture
Jahan Ramazani, University Professor and Shannon Professor of English Literature as well as Director of Modern and Global Studies at the University of Virginia, will be visiting our department as a Hurst scholar in the third week of September. Jahan's extraordinary career has formed around the several marks of distinction in those academic titles. A prominent scholar of poetry and poetics, Jahan ranges across British and American but also global frames of reference, focusing on the modern and contemporary periods with a special emphasis on a new transnational imaginary in contemporary verse. Critic, editor, translator, his books include Poetry in a Global Age; Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres; A Transnational Poetics; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English; Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney.
Learn More about Jahan Ramazani on his website at: The University of Virginia or The Poetry Foundation
