Stacey D’Erasmo: After the World Ends: Writers and Artists Respond to Crisis (January 2016)

Focusing on the fiction of Paul Monette and Gwendolyn Brooks as well as the photography of Cartier-Bresson, D’Erasmo’s lecture offers an exploration of the radical shifts in theme, technique, and genre that writers and artists have undergone following massive upheavals on global, cultural, and personal levels.