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Join us on Friday, May 5 at 3:30pm in Kresge 1-515 for a guest lecture with Professor Annabel Kim (Harvard University). 

Professor Kim's lecture will center on a reading of Marguerite Duras’s La Douleur and Monique Wittig’s L’Opoponax that explores how these texts formulate antipodal conceptions of the necessary relation between property and space as it manifests in the convergence of gender and excrementality.

Annabel L. Kim is the Roy G. Clouse associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the author of Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions and Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature. Kim is the co-editor, with Morgane Cadieu, of a forthcoming issue of Yale French Studies, Lesbian Materialism: The Life and Work of Monique Wittig, and the editor of a special issue of Diacritics on the politics of citation, Citation, Otherwise. Kim is also the co-translator, with Lynne Huffer, of Monique Wittig’s The Literary Workshop, forthcoming with Verso in 2024, and is currently translating Céline Minard’s Plasmas for Deep Vellum.