'Love Is Not Being Devoured', a lecture by Professor Merve Emre

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. She is a contributing writer at 'The New Yorker' and author of 'Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America' (2017), 'The Personality Brokers' (2018), and (with Sarah Chihaya, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards) 'The Ferrante Letters' (2019); Professor Emre is also editor of 'Once and Future Feminist' (2018), 'The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway' (2021), and 'The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway' (2021). Among her current projects is a book entitled 'Love and Other Useless Pursuits' for Norton / Harper Collins.