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Methods Café – Roundtable with Raphael Magarik

Date
Wed February 18th 2026, 2:00 - 4:00pm

The narrator, the author: you know the difference between these functions. When and why do these categories separate out to produce literary fiction? Please join us for a special roundtable edition of Methods Café! Raphael Magarik (University of Illinois, Chicago) will join a conversation on his new book with Esther Yu, Bernardo Hinojosa, and Ali Madani. Magarik's book is entitled Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator