Mary Poovey - Working Outside my Comfort Zone: A Literary Scholar Tackles Financial Modelling

Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities, New York University, will give a lecture as part of the CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Professor programme.

This lecture explores some of the challenges of moving from a lifelong research project centred in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature to a project focused on modern economics and finance, mostly in the United States. Mary Poovey will discuss the argument of the book she and Kevin R Brine are completing, A Modern Way of Knowing: Studies in the History of Financial Modeling, and she will examine the risks and rewards of this intellectual swerve.