Join the University of Queensland's Professor Tim Mehigan as he launches his new book at the Seminar Co-op Bookstore in Chicago on Thursday, March 15. Professor Tim Mehigan is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at UQ. He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and is currently undertaking research at the University of Chicago.
Please join us for the launch of Professor Mehigan’s book, The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J.M.Coetzee. Following the Q&A, please join us for networking and continued discussion with Professor Mehigan over coffee and nibbles in the Plein Air Café and Eatery, located adjacent to the Seminary Co-op.
This event will provide UQ alumni with the opportunity to engage with one of UQ’s distinguished professors in the humanities, learn more about his work, and meet other alumni in the Chicago area. We hope you can join us for this event!
About Professor Tim Mehigan
Tim Mehigan is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (elected 2003) and former President of the German Studies Association of Australia (2003-2007). He was Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich for two years in 1994 and 1995. In 2013 he was awarded the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
Tim’s work is focused on two key periods in German literary and intellectual history: on the one hand, the literature and philosophy of the time of Goethe and Kant, which is to say, the late 18th and early 19th century; on the other hand, the literature and philosophy of Austrian modernism in the first three decades of the 20th century.
Beyond such a focus, Tim is vitally interested in the connections that flow between literature and philosophy and has explored these in relation to writers such as Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) and Robert Musil (1880-1942) and topic areas such as the deployment of space in literature.
Tim has also recently edited a Companion devoted to the work of J.M. Coetzee (Camden House, 2011) and published, with B. Empson, the first English translation of K.L. Reinhold’s major work of philosophy Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens (Walter de Gruyter, 2011).
