16 Nov 2022 18:00 Talk & Discussion: Anca Parvulescu, The Laughter Epidemic, from Bataille to Adorno

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Anca Parvulescu is Professor of English and Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St Louis, USA. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion (MIT, 2010); The Traffic in Women’s Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (Chicago UP, 2014); and Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell UP, 2022). She is currently working on a project on the cultural history of the face, Modernist Faces: Physiognomy and Facial Form.