• Conrad Scholarships up for grabs!

    Conrad Scholarships up for grabs!

  • Interpretation relies on finding parallels - meaningful repetition of an idea, word or image.

    Interpretation relies on finding parallels - meaningful repetition of an idea, word or image.

  • "Sometimes the three hours’ labour of a morning resulted in half a dozen lines, corrected into illegibility." (Gissing, 1891)

    "Sometimes the three hours’ labour of a morning resulted in half a dozen lines, corrected into illegibility." (Gissing, 1891)

  • "Denial is not just a river in Egypt" - At the source of the Nile, Murchison Falls, National Park, Uganda.

    "Denial is not just a river in Egypt" - At the source of the Nile, Murchison Falls, National Park, Uganda.

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Yael Levin is associate professor of English, the associate provost for academic affairs at the Rothberg International School and President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is currently working at the Mandel Scholion Research Center on 'The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture'. Her monographs include Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in journals and volumes including The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies. 

Curriculum Vitae

Key words:

Joseph Conrad, Poststructuralism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Narratology, Subjectivity, Creative Agency, Theory, The Interruption of Writing.