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2023

Seminar-Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection

Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)

Past Event

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Date(s)
January 13, 2023
Location
Ground Floor Meeting Room, 11 University Square
Time
15:00 - 16:30

A CDRG Modern Languages Research Seminar

Professor Charles Forsdick

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and Adjunct Professor in Translation Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. From 2012 until 2021 he was AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for 'Translating Cultures'. He has published widely on travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial literature, comics, penal culture and the afterlives of slavery. He is also a specialist on Haiti and the Haitian Revolution, and has written in particular about representations of Toussaint Louverture.

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