Cities extend across both historical time and imaginative space, constantly reconstructed in both dimensions. Tenochtitlan becomes colonial Mexico City and now a modern megalopolis; St. Petersburg becomes Leningrad and now St. Petersburg again. If Calvino's Marco Polo could best describe Venice through an array of invisible cities, attention can also be given to more visible examples of cities in transformation. We invite papers on the poetic archaeology of cities over time.

Contact: David Damrosch (dnd2@columbia.edu)