Doug Battersby, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (2021-23), will present a draft chapter from his second book project, tentatively titled The Novel and the Heart: 1840-1940. The chapter is titled “Exhibiting Bodily Affect: Thomas Hardy’s Betraying Heart”.

Michaela Bronstein, Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University, has kindly agreed to act as Doug’s respondent.

The event will take place in person in Studio 40 of McClatchy Hall on Thursday, May 19th, from 5-7pm.