UNC Asheville Critical Perspectives Series

UNC Asheville will host the Critical Perspectives Series in March and April with two virtual events. The first lecture, with scholar Kirstin Squint, will consider the recently published novel, Even As We Breathe in preparation for author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s visit the following week. Learn more about Clapsaddle’s event here. The second lecture will be given by literary scholar Toril Moi. All events are free and available to stream live through Zoom.

The events are as follows:

• Kirstin Squint, Whichard Visiting Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University, will present her lecture, “Native Southern Literature and EBCI Author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle,” at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24. She has published and lectured on Native American literatures and cultures and U.S. multi-ethnic literatures, particularly in the Southeast. She is a contributor to the award-winning Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, and is the author of LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature and editor of Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies.

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• Toril Moi, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Literature at Duke University, will conclude the series with her lecture “A Wittgensteinian Phenomenology of Criticism,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20. Moi’s scholarship includes feminist theory and women’s writing; the intersection of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and ordinary language philosophy in the tradition of Wittgenstein, Cavell and Austin. She is the author of a number of books, including Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory; Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman; What Is a Woman? And Other Essays; and Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell.

Register here for this lecture.