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Title:'Reading Hybridity in Fiction: How does Literature Engage with Philosophy?'
Description: How can literature help us to examine philosophical conundrums? Touching on Roland Barthes’s ‘Death of the Author’ and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, this workshop will explore how literature provides us with a space to question the complexities of identity and society. I will ask us to think about how hybridity can be examined through the flexibility of literary meaning, as we determine how literature forms a philosophical reflection of the world.
Speaker: Laura Gibbs, Ph.D. 1999 (Comparative Literature: Latin, Greek, Polish). Laura Gibbs holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s of Philosophy from Oxford University and has taught online courses for the University of Oklahoma since 2002. She is both an online educator and advocate and is involved in several distance education endeavors.
