Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and an author of some thirty books, mostly novels. In his career he has won numerous awards, honors, and fellowships, among the most recent being the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association in 2018. As he puts it, “if you do a thing long enough that just happens.” Here are a few of his titles: I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Glyph, Erasure, So Much Blue and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell.
Percival Everett
Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California
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Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
This roundtable explores empathy as a psychological and imaginative process through which individuals “feel into” others and learn from both real and fictional experiences. It considers how empathy shapes identity, emotional understanding, and our ability to navigate relationships and internal conflicts.