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Colloquium with Martin Harries

Date: November 22 2010, 3:30pm Location: Pamplin Society Room- Watzek Library

Martin Harries is an associate professor of English at New York University (NYU), where he teaches courses on theater, modernism, and theory. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews and of two books, Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (Fordham University Press, 2007) and Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (Stanford University Press, 2000).

Harries received his PhD in comparative literature from Yale University and his AB in English from Columbia University. He is a member of the Modern Language Association. A Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities supported his graduate work. Before teaching at NYU, he was on the faculty at Princeton University.