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Natasha Lvovich interactive seminar at University College Cork.
The seminar introduced the scholarly field of Literary Multilingualism and the community of scholars and writers of The Journal of Literary Multilingualism, with a focus on the interdisciplinary history of the field and analytical modalities for the study of literary texts written in L2.
Natasha Lvovich, the JLM founder and Editor in Chief, introduced several multilingual authors and texts as examples (such as works by Vladimir Nabokov, Ariel Dorfman, Elias Canetti, Xiaolu Guo, Ilan Stavans) and read a short vignette that she had written, which echoes the subject of the discussion. Giulia Travaglini, the JLM editorial assistant and a PhD student at Sapienza University, read two poems by the multilingual Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and engaged the audience in the discussion.
The seminar encouraged faculty and graduate students at UCC and COST participants online to amplify their networks and research various disciplinary angles in the field of literary multilingualism, thereby contributing to the promotion of creativity and multilingualism as an antidote to isolation and nationalism.