The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community.  Each week there is a short (30 minute) presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline.

Levi’s lecture will cover the theoretical conception of his forthcoming edited volume, the Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism, which brings together scholars working across several Middle Eastern languages to comparatively explore the roots, development, and institution of modernism as a literary and aesthetic movement in the region. The talk will also include a few close readings of Arabic and Persian poetry that inform the volume’s theoretical foundations.