Agenda

Time	Presentations
9:30am	Coffee and light refreshments Introductory Remarks Deborah Lindsay Williams and Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University
9:45am	“The Oxford History of the Novel in English and the Project of Literary History in the Twenty-First Century:” Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading; general editor, The Oxford History of the Novel in English).
10am	“Horizons of Literary History:” Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh); Leonard Cassuto (Fordham University); Bruce Robbins (Columbia University).
11:15am	“US Literature as World Literature:” Patrick Deer (New York University), Deborah Lindsay Williams (New York University), Ella Williamson (New York University).
12:30 – 1:45pm	Lunch at 19 Washington Square North
2pm	“Urban and Anti-Urban Literature:” Scott Herring (Yale University), Cyrus R. K. Patell (New York University), Bryan Waterman (New York University).
3:15pm	"Literary History in the Twenty-First Century: What Next?:” Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh), Scott Herring (Yale University), Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading), Deborah Lindsay Williams (New York University).