Wed 23 July, 2014
Caryl Emerson: Bakhtin and the Actor (with constant reference to Shakespeare)

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, at Princeton University. She is the most outstanding and internationally acknowledged Bakhtin scholar, the author of the seminal Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (1990) and The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (1997). Among Prof Emerson's contributions are edited anthologies, and critical collections, such as Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin (1999), Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges (1989); as well as commented translations of M. M. Bakhtin, Speech Genres & Other Late Essays (1989) Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1984), The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin (1981).