Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”, 29 September | Event in New Haven

Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”

Whitney Humanities Center at Yale

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Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 04:30 pm

320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511-3627, United States

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Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 04:30 pm (EDT)

320 York St, CT 06511-3627

320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511-3627, United States

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Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”
Join Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and translator Jhumpa Lahiri for the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture as she offers fresh insight into a literary classic.

Full details: https://events.yale.edu/event/quiver-and-fixity-on-rereading-jude-the-obscure

📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
320 York Street, New Haven, CT

✅ Free and open to all

ABOUT THE LECTURE
This lecture will explore the oscillating energy of Thomas Hardy’s final work of fiction, “Jude the Obscure,” tracing themes of stillness, solitude, perturbation, and permanence. Mythical frameworks will serve to consider the wavering nature of identity, the looming proximity of the underworld, and the condition of feeling both confined and unsettled in this famously unsettling novel.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning bilingual writer and translator who divides her time between New York and Italy. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for “Interpreter of Maladies”, her debut story collection, which explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. She is the author of several books, including “The Namesake,” “Unaccustomed Earth,” and “Lowland.” Her most recent novel is “Roman Stories” (“Racconti Romani”). Translated into English by Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz, the book was named a New Yorker 2023 Best Book of the Year. In it she explores issues of translation-as-metamorphoses and the protean self. Lahiri is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. She was named Commander of the Italian Republic in 2019 by President Sergio Mattarella.

Cosponsored by Whitney Humanities Center and The Yale Review


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Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”, 29 September | Event in New Haven
Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”
Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 04:30 pm