Chairs: Yoon Sun Lee, Deidre Lynch

The novel is a radically capacious and always evolving genre, open to the full range of world literature, across periods and locations. This seminar examines the novel and its various, overlapping functions as aesthetic object, cultural artifact, historical text, and conceptual resource—the novel as theory and the novel in theory. Through comparative and multidisciplinary inquiry, we approach the novel from a wide range of vantage points.