Visiting Hurst Professor: Jahan Ramazani, Seminar

Visiting Hurst Professor: Jahan Ramazani, Seminar

Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Visiting Hurst Professor, Jahan Ramazani, who will be presenting a Seminar titled, "A Caribbean Poetics of (Post-)Mourning: Elegizing the Middle Passage."

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 AgePoetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of GenresA Transnational PoeticsThe Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in EnglishPoetry 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