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The 2021-2022 Edward Surtz Lecture in the Humanities: "Texts and the City: Literature and the Longue Durée"
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Alexander Beecroft is the Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of South Carolina and author of Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation (Cambridge University Press, 2010), An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Verso, 2015), and many articles and essays. His current book project, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, is A Global History of Literature.
This annual endowed lecture honors the memory and scholarship of Edward L. Surtz, S.J., a beloved member of the Loyola faculty and distinguished scholar of early modern literature and Renaissance humanism.
The lecture will be held by Zoom Webinar on March 21, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. CT. Register in advance at this address:
https://luc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i-9cQmHGQY6ZDYXrSRXHsQ