January 16: Cesar Dominguez on Reception in Medieval Contact Zones. The Case of Outremer
January 16, 4 PM, 912 Sproul
Prof. Cesar Dominguez. University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain
“Reception in Medieval Contact Zones. The Case of Outremer”
César Domínguez is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair “The Culture of European Integration”. His teaching and research focus upon theory of comparative literature, comparative literary history, comparative European literature, and comparative studies in medieval literatures. In addition to numerous articles and books on these topics, he is co-editor of the International Comparative Literature Association Coordinating Committee’s two-volume Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. His two most recent books are World Literature: A Reader (Routledge, 2013) and Literatura europea comparada (Arco/Libros, 2013). As for professional services, he is Vice-President of the Spanish Society of General and Comparative Literature, Chair of the ICLA Research Committee, member of the ICLA Coordinating Committee, member of the Academia Europaea, General Coordinator of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies, and Fellow of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History. He is now working on the project Crossing Medieval Boundaries.