Mabel Lee to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Dr Mabel Lee, Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 9. Lee has published both translations of the major work of Flaiano Poetry Prize winner Yang Lian, and Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian, a contributor to Issue 4 of Interlitq, and has also conducted ground-breaking research, as evidenced by many critical articles, that seeks to locate these two writers in contemporary Chinese literary and intellectual history.

Marjorie Garber’s “Shakespeare and Modern Culture” to be published by Random House in December, 2009

“Shakespeare and Modern Culture”, the new book by Marjorie Garber, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and a Consulting Editor of “The International Literary Quarterly”, in which she ”delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture”, will be published by Random House in December, 2009.

Andrew Motion to talk about Tennyson on “Proms Literary Festival” radio 3 programme on August 2nd

Sir Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate who contributed an example of his poetry to Issue 5 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, will be introducing a personal choice of poems by Lord Tennyson, performed by actress Fiona Shaw, in a “Proms Literary Festival” radio 3 programme on Sunday, August 2nd at 8.20pm. After the recital, Motion will talk to Matthew Sweet about aspects of Tennyson’s life and work.

Joyce Carol Oates to give “Cornell University Summer Session” lecture in early August 2009

Joyce Carol Oates, the distinguished American novelist who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 7 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, will be giving a lecture, “The Writer’s (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration”, in the process discussing Samuel Beckett, the Brontë sisters, Emily Dickinson, Graham Greene, Norman Mailer, Anaïs Nin, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and the psychological underpinnings of creativity, at a “Cornell University Summer Session” in the Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, on Wednesday, August 5th at 7.30pm.

Stephen Greenblatt to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Stephen Greenblatt, the literary critic, theorist and scholar regarded by many as one of the founders of “New Historicism”, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, widely considered the foremost interpreter of Renaissance English literature, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of many honours including the Erasmus Institute Prize and the Mellon Distinguished Humanist Award, here talking about “Cardenio”, his play which was premiered at the American Repertory Theatre, and the author of many works including “Hamlet in Purgatory”, “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” and “The Greenblatt Reader”, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 8.