Humanities Series

Academy Lecture: The Role of the Literary Reviewer - Professor Linda Hutcheon Chair: Professor Eve Patten Addtional: Denis Staunton Respondent: Professor Terence Brown Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 6:30pm in Academy House Professor Linda Hutcheon, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto gives a public lecture on the role of the literary reviewer. This event was a tribute to the important legacy of Caroline Walsh, literary editor of the Irish Times and a valued member of the academy’s committee for literatures in English. This lecture will consider the role of the literary reviewer as a gatekeeper or arbiter within literary culture and on the vital influence of reviewing for the success of the contemporary writer. Professor Hutcheon is a leading figure and a specialist in postmodernist culture and in critical theory, on which she has published The Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988); The Politics of Postmodernism (1989); The Canadian Postmodern (1989)