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


He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student whos working as an intern for Elios father. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center. Its the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. 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. 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.Īciman received his Ph.D. Aciman has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. 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.

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)Īndré Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature.
