WHAP! Lecture Series
SPEAKER:
Leigh Claire La Berge’s first book, Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (2015) tracks the contest between postmodern and realist fictions about finance in a nascent era of financialization, and her articles have appeared in Radical Philosophy, Studies in American Fiction, Criticism, Journal of Cultural Economy, and the Radical History Review. She is the co-editor, along with Alison Shonkwiler, of Reading Capitalist Realism (2014). She is assistant professor of English at the City University of New York (BMCC) and a Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Grad Center.
RESPONDENT:
Michelle Chihara is Assistant Professor of English at Whittier College, where she teaches contemporary American literature and popular culture, creative writing and creative nonfiction. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics, due out in 2018. She also edits the Economics & Finance section of The Los Angeles Review of Books.