Ithaca College

Chris Holmes, Associate Professor of English, was invited to present a lecture on the work of Kazuo Ishiguro at the University of Pennsylvania on November 14th.  The title of his talk was “Ishiguro: Genre Monster."

Ishiguro's work is a consistent point of interest in Holmes' research.  He has presented papers on Ishiguro at conferences of the Society for Novel Studies and of the Modernist Studies Association, as well as at a special symposium on Ishiguro's works convened at the University of Tokyo in 2014.  He is presently working on an article on the notion of the limit in Ishiguro's novels, and has another due to appear in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature. 

Holmes' lecture at Penn is drawn from his book-in-progress and examines Ishiguro’s turn to the conventions of genre fiction in his later novels.