{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Alumnus Author Cyrus R. K. Patell class of 1979","description":"This podcast features alumnus author Cyrus R. K. Patell, class of 1979. Cyrus is professor of English at New York University in New York. He received his AB, AM, and PhD in English and American literature and language from Harvard University. His scholarship and teaching centers on the theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; \u201cStar Wars;\u201d minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history. He is the author of \u201cEmergent U.S. Literatures\u201d and \u201cCosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination.\u201d He is presently at work on \u201cWhat in the World is a Global Text?\u201d as well as a study of the ways in which Shakespeare's \u201cHamlet\u201d became a part of global cultural heritage. He is coediting volume eight of the twelve-volume \u201cOxford History of the Novel in English\u201d on the American novel after 1940. His most recent book is \u201cLucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe.\u201d ","author_name":"Trinity School NYC Podmissum","author_url":"http:\/\/trinityschoolnyc.libsyn.com","html":"