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DESCRIPTION:Join MISC at 4:00 pm on Tuesday\, November 26th at the Faculty 
 Club (3450 McTavish Street) for the 2024 Fall Eakin Lecture\, Canlit and t
 he Culture of Confession\, by Dr. Myra Bloom.\n\nConfession is everywhere 
 in our culture. It drives banal social media posts\, salacious reality tel
 evision shows\, revolutionary social justice movements\, and is prominent 
 in literature. Confession has also been central to feminist movements thro
 ughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Nevertheless\, self-disclosure comes l
 aden with an array of dangers\, particularly for women: that they will be 
 disbelieved or retraumatized\, seen as narcissistic and/or unliterary\, or
  professionally stereotyped and blocked from opportunities. Moreover\, ‘th
 e personal’ has become such a dominant lens through which we view art by w
 omen that even writers of fiction risk being misread as autobiographers. I
 n this talk\, Dr. Bloom will discuss how writers negotiate the potentialit
 ies and pitfalls of confession\, focusing specifically on Canadian women i
 ncluding Nelly Arcan\, Sheila Heti\, Sina Queyras and Tanya Tagaq\, whose 
 experiments in life writing are fueling literary innovation in this countr
 y. Dr. Bloom will also show how Canlit itself has become confessional\, as
  personal disclosure increasingly shapes its texts\, institutions\, and di
 scourse.\n\nMyra Bloom is an Associate Professor of English at York Univer
 sity’s Glendon College in Toronto and is currently the Eakin Fellow at the
  91³Ô¹Ï Institute for the Study of Canada. Her research is focused on Cana
 dian women's writing and intercultural relations in Québecois fiction. She
  is completing a SSHRC-funded monograph on confessional Canadian women's w
 riting\, Evasive Maneuvers. Her scholarship and criticism are published in
  various academic and popular venues\, including in a recent issue of The 
 Walrus dedicated to the best arts and culture writing of the past 20 years
 . Her collection Shelter in Text\, co-edited with Kasia Van Schaik\, is be
 ing published by University of Alberta Press in Fall 2025.\n\nThe lecture 
 will be followed by a Q&A and reception. This event is free and open to pu
 blic\; registration is required via Eventbrite.\n\nThe Eakin Lecture serie
 s is bi-annually organized by the 91³Ô¹Ï Institute for the Study of Canada
 \, as a part of the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies establis
 hed by the Eakin family in memory of William R. Eakin. The fellowships are
  awarded each term to active scholars whose research or teaching advances 
 Canadian Studies.\n
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LOCATION:Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E5\, 3450 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Canlit and the Culture of Confession (Fall 2024 Eakin Lecture)
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