Reading Group Two: Weil and Literature
John Collier. Clytemnestra after the Murder (1882). Oil on canvas, 239 × 174 cm (94 × 69 in). Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
“The Iliad or Poem of Force” with Cynthia Wallace
Sessions will be 1.5 hours in length, 45 minutes for Dr. Wallace to unpack her reading of the text and 45 minutes for general questions, answers, comments, and ideas. These sessions will be held on zoom and are open to all AWS members, so if you or anyone you know is interested in participating, please join the AWS. The sessions will be recorded, edited, and made available to the public via Youtube.
Dr. Wallace will be referencing the following translation of the text, which we recommend all participants use for ease of reference: “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force,” trans. Mary McCarthy (Chicago Review; Jan 1, 1965).
Cynthia R. Wallace is Associate Professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, where she also directs the Irene and Doug Schmeiser Centre for Faith, Reason, Peace, and Justice. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of contemporary women’s writing, religion, and ethics. She is author of the books Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering (Columbia UP, 2016) and The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion (Columbia UP, 2024). Her writing on Weil has also appeared or is forthcoming in Religion and Literature, Attention, the Kenyon Review, the Ploughshares blog, Commonweal, the Christian Century, and The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil.