Literature and the Financial Crisis of 2008
A Conversation with Kenneth Warren
About the Event
Join us for a conversation with Kenneth W. Warren, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, exploring the ways that the financial crisis of 2008 has shaped literary fiction. Together, we will examine writers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Asia and we will try to understand the challenges and meaning of this crisis to novelists.
Who's Speaking
Kenneth W. Warren
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English
Kenneth W. Warren is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of What Was African American Literature? (Harvard UP, 2011), So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (University of Chicago Press, 1993).