Professor Stephen Ahern speaks at the University of Cambridge, UK
While on sabbatical leave Professor Ahern was invited to present to faculty and graduate students in the 18th Century and Romantics Research Seminar. He spoke on his current research, and then led a discussion on the usefulness of drawing on current affect theory to elucidate older literary texts. His talk was titled “On Affect’s Effects: Interpretation, Critique, and the Transports of Eighteenth-Century Literature.”