The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today is a two-day conference bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary and topical fields to explore how and why we read in the humanities today. Speakers will engage diverse authors, media, and methodologies to interrogate the relationship between theories of reading and past, present, and future directions for literary and critical theory.  The conference is sponsored by the Temple University Department of English, the Temple University Department of Philosophy, and the Center for the Humanities at Temple, and it is organized by the Temple Graduate English Association and the Student-Faculty Reading Group.

Charles Altieri, Professor of English at UC Berkeley, will deliver the keynote address, titled, “Restoring Imagination without Romantic Ideology: A Task for Phenomenology.” See the conference website for registration, the conference schedule, and additional information.