On Tuesday, December 3, as part of the Aesthetics and Religion course taught by Professor Amador Vega in the Master’s in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Thought, a lecture titled "Decreation in the 21st Century: Anne Carson" will be delivered by Elizabeth Sarah Coles, author of Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist (Oxford University Press, 2023; 2024 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation).

"Decreation in the 21st century", by Elizabeth Sarah Coles
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Sala de Graus Albert Calsamiglia (40.035, Roger de Llúria building)

Free entry

Elizabeth Sarah Coles

Until 2024, Elizabeth S. Coles was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Humanities at UPF. She earned her degrees at the University of Cambridge (BA, MA, MPhil.), where she received the Tom Henn Prize for English and the Wood Whistler Medal, and completed her PhD at Queen Mary, University of London (under the supervision of Professor Jacqueline Rose), where she coordinated the Psychoanalysis, History, and Political Life Forum (School of Advanced Study, University of London).

She has published on literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, and contemporary literature in edited collections and indexed journals, including New Formations, Feminist Theology, and Psychoanalysis and History. She co-edited Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (eds. Bar-Haim, Coles, Tyson, 2021). Her book The Glass Essayist (Oxford University Press, 2023) was awarded the 2024 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism by the Poetry Foundation.

She is a member of the Center for Studies in Aesthetics, Religion, and Contemporary Culture and the Haas Research Group on the Poetics of Knowledge.