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Urmila Seshagiri delivered a lecture on Modernist literature's afterlives
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Andrew Vandervlies, associate professor of English at Queen Mary University (UK), delivered a lecture on the intertexts in the autofiction of J.M. Coetzee.
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Associate Professor of English at Fordham University, Corey McEleney, delivered a lecture on Alfred Hitchcock and fanatical reading.
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, assistant professor of comparative literature at Penn State, gave a talk on the Latin American Literary Boom period.
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Kathy Lubey, associate professor of English at St John's University and Ithaca College alumna, gave a provocative talk about gender and sex toys in the 18thc.