Notation After “The Reality Effect”: Remaking Reference with Roland Barthes and Sheila Heti

Rachel Sagner Buurma ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. She is working on a book about the research practices of Victorian novelists. Additionally, she and Laura Heffernan are co-authoring a new disciplinary history that sees historicism’s referential research and provisional aesthetic values as central to the identity and classroom practices of English as a discipline.

Laura Heffernan ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida. She is writing a book about how modernist literary critics began to research taste rather than model it. “The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom,” an essay from her collaborative book project with Rachel Buurma, recently appeared in New Literary History.