Lecture entitled "The Ludic Impulse in Post-Postmodern Literature" by Professor Danuta Fjellestad of Uppsala University.

Thursday, November 5, 2015 in Rockefeller 001 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm  

Danuta Fjellestad  is Chair and Professor of American Literature and Culture, Uppsala University Professor Fjellestad’s main research interests are 20th and 21st century American fiction, in particular postmodern and post-postmodern texts; visual culture; literary theory; intellectual auto/biography; ethnic studies; new media; electronic literature. She is also keenly interested in pedagogy and organization of higher education. Her present book-length study, The Pictorial Turn in Literature: Reading Fiction Today, focuses on word-image interactions in contemporary American literature.  Professor Fjellestad is the recipient of several grants and scholarships, among others from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (RJ) and the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (2004), Fulbright (2000 – 2001), the Swedish Research Council (1995-1997), ACLS (1989), and Vilas (1986). Since 2010 Fjellestad has been member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council (VR)