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In 36 panels, the universe: Richard McGuire’s 'Here'


Date & time
Friday, March 17, 2017
12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Cost

Free

Organization

Liberal Arts College

Contact

Sita Zarrabian
514-848-2424, ext. 2565

Where

RR Annex
2040 Mackay
Room 02

Wheel chair accessible

No

This seminar session led by Jean-Christophe Cloutier will take a close look at Richard McGuire’s groundbreaking 6-page comic, “Here,” first published in the pages of RAW magazine in 1989. Copies of the comic will be made available in advance.

Jean-Christophe Cloutier is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He recently co-edited a scholarly edition of Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin Classics, 2017), and is the editor of Jack Kerouac’s French manuscripts, La vie est d’hommage (Boréal, 2016). He also translated Kerouac’s two French novellas for The Library of America’s The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings (2016), and is currently a Fellow at Harvard U’s Hutchins Center where he is completing a monograph entitled “Archival Vagabonds: The Peripatetic Lives of Literary Papers.”

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