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James Currie (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) "The Transformation of the Sacred Landscape of Neapolis (Syracuse) during the Augustan Colonization of 21BC"

Dr Hannah Mitchell (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) "Lucius Cornificius' Elephant and the Politics of Commemoration in Triumviral Rome"

Chair: David Swan

Respondent: Dr David Lines (Italian Studies)

Readers as Caregivers: On Reading for Empathy

  Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2017) and The Personality Brokers out now from Doubleday (and published under What's Your Type in the U.K. by Harper Collins). Her academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, American Literature, Modernism/modernity, and PMLA. Her essays have appeared or forthcoming in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other venues.

Professor Merve Emre, associate professor of English at Oxford, has recently published What's Your Type: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (Harper Collins, 2018). She is also the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in America (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and numerous essays in top scholarly and public intellectual journals.