Book Talk and Conversation: The K-Effect with Christopher GoGwilt

Fordham English Professor Christopher GoGwilt will discuss his recent book, The K-Effect: Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture, in a conversation hosted by Professor Stephen Hong Sohn. This event will include light refreshments, and there will be door prizes for attendees.

About the Book
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others.

About the Author
Christopher GoGwilt is a professor of English and comparative literature at Fordham University. He is the author of The K-Effect (2024), The Passage of Literature (2011), The Fiction of Geopolitics (2000), and The Invention of the West (1995).

This Professor Connections event is sponsored by Arts & Sciences; Jim McCartin, acting dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center; and co-sponsored by the Asian American studies, English, and comparative literature departments.