has been invited to speak at the 2016 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, this year held in Austin, Texas, where he addressed the Special Session entitled ‘Mediterranean Times, Past, Futurity, Afterwardness.’ Dr Bugeja’s participation at the MLA Convention is the first of a series of invited presentations, keynote addresses and seminars he will be delivering throughout 2016 at various departments and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Italy, South Korea, Canada and elsewhere.
At the MLA Special Session on the Mediterranean, Dr Bugeja discussed the question of a literary politics of the afterwardly, a seminal subject he takes up in a number of forthcoming publications in major essay collections focusing on post-Bardo Tunisia, post-coloniality and post-continental philosophy, melancholy and notions of the post-republican, and further afield.
Dr Bugeja is Research Fellow in Postcolonial Studies at the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta.
Photo credit: Virginia Monteforte
Photo credit: Virginia Monteforte
