Join us on Thursday, October 6th from 6:00 to 8:00pm in the Rifkind Center (NAC 6/316) for the launch of Professor Robert Higney’s new book, Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2022). In Institutional Character Professor Higney investigates the twentieth-century rethinking of literary character, revealing how for a diverse array of modernist writers, character became an attribute of the institutions of the state, international trade, communication and media, labor, education, public health, the military, law, and beyond.

Robert Higney is an associate professor of English and director of the department’s undergraduate Honors Program and Isaacs Scholarship. He teaches courses on twentieth-century and contemporary British and global Anglophone literature, modernism, and the history of the novel.

The conversation will be moderated by Professor Václav Paris, who is associate professor of English at City College of New York. His most recent book is The Evolutions of Modernist Epic (Oxford University Press, 2020).