British Author Lavinia Greenlaw at Freie Universität Berlin

Inaugural Lecture by Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor on May 17, 2017 ' 109/2017 from May 08, 2017 British writer Lavinia Greenlaw is the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor of Literature at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the current spring/summer semester. She will give her inaugural lecture entitled "The Built Moment, the Vast Extent," on Wednesday, May 17, at Freie Universität in English. It is open to the public, and admission is free. Lavinia Greenlaw was born in 1962 in London, where she lives as a freelance writer. She studied modern art at Kingston University and graduated from the University of London with a master's degree in Dutch painting of the 17th century. Her creative work covers a broad span. In addition to poetry and novels, she has published nonfiction books and short stories, radio adaptions, a sound installation, a short film, two libretti, and journalistic works.