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2023.03.08 Book Launch: Lenora Hanson

Please join NYU’s Department of English and the Organism for Poetic Research to celebrate the launch of Lenora Hanson’s The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022)! Professor Hanson will be in conversation with Marie Buck and Brian Whitener; light refreshments will be provided.
When: 5:30 PM; March 8th, 2023
Where: In person in the NYU English Department Event Space (ground floor) at 244 Greene Street, NYC and on Zoom: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96594877834

Lenora Hanson is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at New York University. Their book, The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) locates the historical and present-day enclosure and dispossession of non-capitalist ways of living in the language of rhetoric and figure. They recently published a co-authored essay with Laura Goldblatt (UVA) and Bennett Carpenter (LEAD NC) in Social Text on the political economy of professionalization. They are currently at work on a multi-layered pedagogical and scholarly project that focuses on Palestine and Romanticism, along with Mohammed Sakhnini (Khalifa University) and Sarah Copsey-Alsader (University of Exeter). Their work has been published in Romantic Circles, Keats-Shelley Review, Comparative Literature, Multitudes, and Essays in Romanticism.

Marie Buck is the author of the poetry collections Unsolved Mysteries (Roof 2020), Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof 2017), and Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya 2015). Essays about poetry and poetics appear at Post45 ContemporariesThe Hythe, and the Poetry Foundation, and some recent poems can be found at Peach and Hot Pink Mag. They are the managing editor at the journal Social Text and teach writing as a member of UAW Local 7902.

Brian Whitener is an Associate Professor at the University of South Alabama. His recent projects include the poetry volumes Face Down (2016) and The 90s (2022), as well as the critical monograph Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil (2019) and a translation of Grupo de Arte Callejero’s Thought, Practices, and Actions (2019).

All in-person attendees not affiliated with NYU must RSVP here by Monday March 6th at 12 noon to be approved for NYU campus access.