World-Systems, World-Ecology, World-Literary Criticism: Reading Across Hemispheres and Durées

Thursday 9 March 2017
5 p.m.

UCD Humanities Institute


Chaired by Prof. Porscha Fermanis (UCD)

Funded by the European Research Council and supported by the UCD Humanities Institute.

Dr. Sharae Deckard (UCD)

Sharae Deckard is Lecturer in World Literature at UCD. She is a co-author of Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World Literature (2015) and the author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalisation (2010). Her research interests include world literature and world-systems theory; environmental criticism; global, neo-liberal, and postcolonial ecologies; and ecological crisis.

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