Join us for a roundtable on time with four contributors to the recent book, Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. Editor Amy Elias will be in conversation with Jesse Matz, Jared Gardner, and Jim Phelan. The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies.
Amy Elias teaches and writes about arts and aesthetics of the post-1945 period, time and history studies, narrative theory, globalization/planetarity studies, and contemporary fiction at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is the principal founder of A.S.A.P. and, most recently, the editor of Time: A Vocabulary of the Present.
Jesse Matz is the William P. Rice Professor of English and Literature at Kenyon College. He teaches twentieth-century literature, narrative theory, and other subjects. His newest book, Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture is forthcoming from Columbia UP. He is also completing Modern Time Ecology (under advance contract at Johns Hopkins UP) and is beginning work on a new book project, "Montage Diversity," which studies montage formats in representations of diversity.
Jared Gardner is a Professor of English at Ohio State specializing in American literature, comics, film, and popular culture. Most recently, he is the author of The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture. He also serves as director of the Popular Culture Studies program at OSU and as editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
Jim Phelan is a Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State who teaches and writes about the English and American novel, especially from modernism to the present, nonfiction narrative, and narrative theory. He is the author of five books that develop the contours of a rhetorical theory of narrative. The most recent are Living to Tell about It (2005) and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007).
