On Tuesday, March 29, 2:30-5:30pm, Yale will host a symposium on the career of the Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov. Ismailov is the preeminent contemporary Central Asian novelist, and a founding member of the Fergana School, one of the most important Russophone poetry scenes of the post-Soviet moment. A panel of critics including Sam Hodgkin and Leah Feldman will survey his literary career, and a panel of his English translators including Robert Chandler will discuss the experience of translating...
MLN Special Issue on Rüdiger Campe’s “Writings Scenes”
The comparatist issue of Modern Language Notes 2021 – which has appeared at the beginning of 2022 – is devoted to Rüdiger Campe’s conceptualization of the “writing scene.” https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47271. Together with further contributions from literary to media studies, the issue features the translation of Campe’s 1991 essay and a new piece on the subject.
