Thomas C. Connolly, Yale University
“Televisions, Burials, and Barzakh: Afterimages of Aniconism in North African Lyric.”
Friday, October 14th, 16h30 – 18h00, East Pyne 010
Dr. Thomas Connolly is a professor at Yale University. He obtained his BA in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford in 2002. He spent three years at the École normale supérieure (Ulm) as “élève de la Sélection internationale,” and completed a “Maîtrise” and a “DEA” at the Université de Paris IV – La Sorbonne. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in May 2012.
Professor Connolly is completing a book entitled Unfinished Poetics: Reading Poetry, Reading Celan, which attempts to formulate new modes of reading in the “sous-oeuvre,” the unauthorized, incomplete, and often overlooked elements of an author’s textual production. His new research project examines literary ekphrasis as it operates in cultures in which there has traditionally been a prohibition on representative images, focusing on Maghrebi Francophone poetry.