Guest Lecturers
Summer Semester 2021
in conversation with Myung Mi Kim and Momtaza Mehri
connected to the course Through the Looking Glass, the Realities We Found There
Christina Chalmers
Christina Chalmers
Christina Chalmers is a poet, translator and doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at NYU, researching the relationship between the philosophy of history and the critique of the family in post-war Italy, focusing on notions of inheritance, generation, reproduction and transmission. She has produced a research film on critical distance and disaster preparedness (Exit Strategies, 2019), published book chapters on experimental film, and translated books on philosophy and psychoanalysis from Italian to English (Blinding Polyphemus, Geography and the Models of the World by Franco Farinelli and works by Elvio Fachinelli). Her published poetry includes Work Songs (Shit Valley Verlag: 2013); Willingness (Materials: 2016) and most recently, Truant of the Stintless Sun (1080 Press: 2021) and forthcoming, Subterflect (Distance No Object: 2021).