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Tirsdag 12. maj 2026, kl. 12:00 - 14:00

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Kasernen, Langelandsgade 141, building 1586, room 114

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“After ‘Environmentalism’: For a Comparatism sans rivage”

Professor Christian Moraru will deliver a guest lecture on the changing role of comparative literature in the age of the Anthropocene. The lecture is co-hosted by the research program Environmental Media and Aesthetics and the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric.

Time: Tuesday 12 May 2026, at 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: Kasernen, Langelandsgade 141, building 1586, room 114

Bio
Christian Moraru is Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in critical and New Materialist theory, contemporary American fiction, and comparative and World Literature, with emphasis on postmodernism and its post-Cold War successors. His recent publications include monographs such as Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (2015), and Flat Aesthetics: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary (2023). His edited books include The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (2015), The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory (2022), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Postmodernisms.

Professor Christian Moraru. After ‘Environmentalism’: For a Comparatism sans rivage”

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