The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures will host a reading and Q&A with author André Aciman, on Wednesday, May 3, 6:00 PM, at the Yenching Auditorium (2 Divinity Ave)

André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me as well as of Out of Egypt and other novels, several essay collections, and Audible novellas. Aciman has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.

Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and, after teaching at Princeton University and Bard College, is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He was chair of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center.

The event is co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of Comparative Literature.

May 3, 2023, 6:00 PM
Yenching Auditorium
2 Divinity Ave