Events
Intersections Book Club welcomes Carissa Harris, Associate Professor of English at Temple University and author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain
Faculty Seminar for Meredith Martin in the Hinds - Lunch will be provided
"At Risk: Memoir, Poetics and the Mississippi Gulf"
Disaffected: A Colonial Genealogy of a Political Emotion
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Sponsored by "The Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English" and "The Lewis Center for the Arts."
2019-20: Celebrating New Asian American Writing
"Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Medieval Preacher"
Co-sponsored with the Program in Medieval Studies.
Critics of postsecularism have unsettled the idea that the United States is progressively secularizing, leading to scholarship that explores the complex entanglement of religion and politics in America.
Critics of postsecularism have unsettled the idea that the United States is progressively secularizing, leading to scholarship that explores the complex entanglement of religion and politics in America.
This event is open to English Department graduate students and job seekers only.
"Introduction: Uncanny Ontologies"
“Present Tense: The Iconology of Time” is an essay on the endless unfolding of social experience, tracking the collective emotional states of the present epoch, primarily in American political culture. It asks the question that informs every social encounter: how are we feeling about the
MASTER CLASS - Aristotle's Poetics with Andrew Ford (Classics) - November 15, 2019 10am -12:30pm
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Theory Colloquium.
Book Learning
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the English Department and the Victorian Colloquium.
Wednesday November 20:
"Tan Lin and Ambient Forgettability"
"Forms of Fantasy: The Interwar Works of W. E. B. Du Bois"
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium and the University Center for Human Values.
Faculty Seminar for Monica Huerta in the Hinds
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Prize entries are due by 11:59 PM on Monday, March 13, 2020 and should be submitted electronically in PDF format at the link following the appropriate prize below.
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the University Center for Human Values.
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Accounting for Tennyson
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Bain-Swiggett Lectureship in Poetry
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Roundtable Discussion: What Is Documentary Poetry?
Co-sponsored with the Program in Asian American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, and the University Center for Human Values.
Poetry Reading: Documentary Poetics
Co-sponsored with the Program in Asian American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, and the University Center for Human Values.