In this lecture Neil Campbell will explore the American West as a haunting presence personally, academically, and politically and argue for its continued significance in the world today. To do this, he will utilise key ideas from his published work on critical regionality, the postwestern, worlding, and the archive, using brief different interdisciplinary examples, including photography and fiction.
About our distinguished speaker:
Neil Campbell is Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Derby, U.K. He published an interdisciplinary trilogy of books on the post-war American West: The Cultures of the American New West (Edinburgh University Press, 2000), The Rhizomatic West (2008) and Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West (both University of Nebraska Press, 2013). He co-edited the book series Place, Memory, Affect with Rowman Littlefield International, and has a volume within it, Affective Critical Regionality (2016). He edited Under the Western Sky (University of Nevada Press, 2018), a collection of essays on the fiction and music of Willy Vlautin and published Worlding the West (University of Nevada Press, 2022). He is currently working on a new book Errant Wests.
The event is free and open for all.
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Stefan Rabitsch