Center for the Study of the Novel
The Center for the Study of the Novel promotes conversation on the novel and related narrative genres as these forms have been practiced across history and cultures. CSN is committed to the importance of studying literature as a primary form of human expression, even as it examines what interdisciplinary perspectives may tell us about literature and the novel in particular. CSN further is committed to studying the history and practice of literary criticism and theory illuminating the novel and its relations to society and culture.
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Past Events
The Center for the Study of the Novel has invited professors Ato Quayson (Stanford), Richard Halpern (NYU), and John Kerrigan (Cambridge)…
Stephen Best’s None Like Us (2018) in…
The Ian Watt Lecture in the History and Theory of the Novel commemorates the renowned Stanford professor whose work has profoundly influenced literary study for nearly 60 years.
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory, ed. Matthew Garret. Cambridge UP, 2018.
Professor McKeon is the author of The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), which won a…
One of the leading scholars of the English novel, Professor Michael McKeon (Rutgers), will speak about the genre of the novel as it relates to wide-ranging cultural and historical contexts…
CSN book discussion with Larry Buell about The Dream of the Great American Novel, with respondent, Gavin Jones.
Time in Our Time: A Conversation with Martin Hägglund and Michael Clune.