Derek Attridge (NHC Fellow 2014–15; 2016–17) | National Humanities Center

Derek Attridge (NHC Fellow 2014–15; 2016–17)

Project Title, 2014–15

Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance: The Middle Ages

University of York

Project Title, 2016–17

Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance

University of York

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2014–15

Derek Attridge wrote four chapters of his book Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance and completed an essay, “Coetzee’s Kafkan Modernism?: Character and Counterfocalization,” that will appear in a volume of conference proceedings.

Fellowship Work Summary, 2016–17

Derek Attridge drafted three chapters and revised another three chapters of his book The Performance of Poetry: Homer to Shakespeare. He also coedited, with Kai Easton, Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal: Writing Scotland & South Africa (Routledge Press, 2017).