Norton Literature Events

Lit Talk: Ancient Epics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright

Hosted by Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright

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Celebrate national poetry month with us! Join Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright for a lively conversation on their new translations of The Iliad and The Aeneid, published in the new edition of The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Wilson, McGill, and Wright will share their approaches to translating and teaching these texts for today’s readers, and will read samples from their work, followed by audience Q&A.

Innovative Approaches to Teaching with Norton Anthologies

With Aarthi Vadde, Jonathan Najarian, and Colleen Clemens

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Are you interested in new ways to teach with Norton Anthologies? Join this online event to hear from three professors on exciting approaches that have engaged their classrooms. Topics include: presenting works on environmental literature and climate change, encouraging students to go beyond what’s assigned, and using Norton’s thematic tables of contents to build syllabi and put texts in dialogue.

Each presenter will speak for five to ten minutes and will provide practical advice on how you can implement the same or similar approaches with your own students. There will be ample time for questions and the chat will be open for discussion.

All registrants will receive a recording of the event, so please register if you’re interested, even if you cannot attend live.

Our speakers:

Aarthi Vadde (Duke University / coeditor: The Norton Anthology of English Literature)

Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, which won the Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. She is the co-editor of The Critic as Amateur and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center for her book-in-progress We the Platform: Contemporary Literature after Web 2.0. She is also the co-founder of Novel Dialogue, a podcast about how novels are made--and what to make of them.

Jonathan Najarian (Colgate University)

Najarian is Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. His teaching spans from surveys of global literature to seminars in visual rhetoric and comics. He is also the editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).

Colleen Clemens (Kutztown University / coauthor: Teaching with The Norton Anthology of World Literature: A Guide for Instructors)

Clemens is Professor of English and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kutztown University, has been in the classroom for almost thirty years, and is committed to using her teaching experience along with her scholarship to improve students' experiences learning literature and writing and to support faculty who find themselves having more and more added to their workload. Most recently she published Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies. Her work has been published in World Literature Today and other magazines, a variety of anthologies, and several peer-reviewed journals.

Lit Talk: Emily Wilson on the Power of Translation

With Emily Wilson

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Join Emily Wilson (lauded translator and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature) for a lively conversation on the power of translation. In this webinar, Wilson will discuss her approach to translation, how it differs from others, and will read an excerpt from her recently-published translation of The Iliad. This event is free and open to all interested, and we will have time for an audience Q&A. All registrants will receive a recording of this event.

The Making of a Norton Anthology

With Stephen Greenblatt, Martin Puchner, Wiebke Denecke, and Courtney Weiss Smith

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Join anthology editors Stephen Greenblatt and Courtney Weiss Smith (the Norton Anthology of English Literature) with Martin Puchner and Wiebke Denecke (the Norton Anthology of World Literature) in conversation with members of the Norton Literature team. These editors will have a lively discussion about their experiences editing these latest editions, some new features and selections, and how they have adapted the anthologies to best suit today’s students and classrooms.

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