Department of English

• Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Teju Cole

Distinguished Writer in Residence, Bard College; Photography Critic, The New York Times Magazine

Amardeep Singh

Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University

Award-winning author Teju Cole sits down with Amardeep Singh, a noted scholar of global English literature, to discuss the ways translation has shaped Cole's life and work, and how it informs his new book Known and Strange Things (Random House and Faber & Faber), a collection of essays on art, literature, photography, and politics. Photography critic for The New York Times Magazine, Cole presented his own photography in a recent solo exhibition, "Blind Spot," which included an essay Cole wrote about his experience with temporary blindness. Book signing to follow. 

Part of the 2016-2017 Penn Humanities Forum on Translation

Cosponsored by Penn's Department of English

https://www.phf.upenn.edu/events/cole