Colloquia
Upcoming Events
Professor Cornelia Pearsall is Professor of English at Smith College. She is also affiliated faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018).
Ecotheories Colloquium:
Cary Wolfe, Rice University, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English. He has written on a range of topics, from American poetry to bioethics. He is series editor for Minnesota Press's Posthumanities Series
Ecotheories Colloquium:
Ada Smailbegović, Brown University, Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. Her writing explores relations between poetics, non-human forms of materiality, and histories of description. She is a co-founder of The Organism for Poetic Research.
Associate Professor of English at John Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Author of The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect
Ecotheories Colloquium:
Assistant Professor of English at Clark University. He specializes in the literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries. He teaches courses on race, disability, and emotions in early modern British literature.
Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Dean of the Humanities at Rutgers University. He received his BA from Williams College and His PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU.
Lynn M. Festa, Rutgers University
Associate Professor of English and author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.
Barbara Browning is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University and Author of Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance (Penn Press, 2014).
Past Events
2022 - 2023
The Humanities Council’s kick-off event features a wide-ranging conversation about central issues in our research, teaching, and intellectual life. This year’s speakers include distinguished Princeton scholars whose work represents different approaches and historical periods. They will participate in a panel discussion on the theme of “Humanities and/as Choice” moderated by the Council’s Acting Chair, Tera Hunter.
Speakers:
Catherine Clune-Taylor (Gender and Sexuality Studies)
“The Government of Choice and/as Values”
2021 - 2022
The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England
War Scare: Nuclear Tennyson
RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, APRIL 28th.
Lyric Education as a Practice of Freedom
Assembling a Black Counter Culture
Rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown presents his forthcoming book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, which constructs the history of techno and adjacent electronic music with a focus on Black experiences in industrialized labor systems, and explores the development of on-the-ground culture in relation to a unique American art form. This talk will illuminate the mechanics of American mainstream cultural production and reinstate electronic music from a Black theoretical perspective.
Shakespeare in the Trans Archive
Professor Chow will discuss her recent book, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present (Columbia University Press, 2021), with follow up discussion with the author.
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3O9AZy1BgIuNRHPCUoTyPpJQ6cc7DNRiepCB4bOA8iFpujQ/viewform
2020-2021
This talk explores the intersection between narratives of catastrophe and contemporary political life by taking the current pandemic as its occasion and point of departure. Diseases caused by viral mutations are accompanied by a particular way of narrating crises and catastrophes.
On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity
Inglorious, Unemployed: Trans/Crip Conjunctions and the Law of Maims in Samson Agonistes
Reading (short and necessary for the prompt):
“Prayer on Aladdin’s Lamp,” Marcus Wicker and listening: Tracy K. Smith, The Slowdown, on “Prayer on Aladdin’s Lamp” (Dec. 18th, 2018), Joy Harjo “Praise the Rain”, Jericho Brown, “Psalm 150”
Podcast Workshop With McGraw Digital Learning Lab, Tuesday July 21st, 11am
Zoom link to be posted
"Forms of Fantasy: The Interwar Works of W. E. B. Du Bois"
"Tan Lin and Ambient Forgettability"
"Introduction: Uncanny Ontologies"
"Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Medieval Preacher"
Co-sponsored with the Program in Medieval Studies.
"At Risk: Memoir, Poetics and the Mississippi Gulf"
"A Terrible Beauty is Born: Landscape and Postcolonial History in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood"
The Holy Maid of Wales: Visions, Imposture and Catholicism in Early Modern Britain
2019-2020
Gabrielle Hamilton: Blood, Bones and Butter and “My Restaurant Was My life for 20 Years. Does the World Need it Anymore?”;
Jenny Zhang on Sizzler from American Like Me;
Min Jin Lee, “What I Want the Woman Behind the Counter to Know”
Optional viewing: Anthony Bourdain with artist David Choe Parts Unknown, episode two, Korea Town LA; podcast “Homecooking” with Samin Nosrat and Hriskikesh Hirway
Prompts:
Readings list: Emily Dickinson, “I Dwell in Possibility,” “By My Window have I for Scenery”;
Emily Bernard, “The Purpose of a House”
Judith Ortiz Cofer, “More Room”
Samantha Irby, “A Case for Remaining Indoors”
Adrienne Brown on masks and race, “Seeing Race in a Pandemic”
Prompts:
1) Write a poem, essayistic piece, journal entry, or illustrate a few graphic panels about a room you have inhabited. How did the room shape your perception or your memories of a given time?
Workshop with Kat Aaron, Senior Producer Pineapple Street Media, producer of English Department Summer Book Club pick “Octavia’s Parables” with Toshi Reagon and Adrienne Maree Brown (https://anchor.fm/oparables/)
What makes for a successful podcast? Join this workshop to learn about elements and storytelling strategies to help you create your own podcast shows.
Elizabeth Bishop, “Questions of Travel”
Kiese Laymon, “City Summer, Country Summer”
Grace Shu, “Why We Should All Take More Road Trips”
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“Notes on the Erotic”
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Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"
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"Tragic Aspiration: Violent Atmospheres in the Empire of US Steel"
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Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"
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Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"
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"Bare hands': gold extraction and settler narratives of dispossession"
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Milton, Newton, and the Making of a Modern World
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium.
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Outline and the Racialization of Surface in Hardy's "Sketch of Temperament"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Collecting Facts: Mass-Observation"
Two Wordsworths: Mountain-Climbing, Letter-Writing
"Ambient Media and Chaucer's House of Fame"
Co-sponsored with the Center for Human Values.
"If You Know You Know: Notes on Percival Everett's Erasure, or Towards a Theory of Black Critical Humor”
"A Separate Piece: Staging Pedagogy in Trans Porn"
Poetic Archival Interventions and a Case for Liminal Studies: Writing from the Invisible Colony of the United States Virgin Islands
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
This event is co-sponsored with the Americanist and 20th C. Colloquia.
Book Learning
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the English Department and the Victorian Colloquium.
It Really Works: George Eliot, Trans Studies, and the Rhetoric of Technique
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Theory Colloquium.
Disaffected: A Colonial Genealogy of a Political Emotion
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Poetry Reading
Co-sponsored with the 20th C. Colloquium, the Bain-Swiggett Lectureship in Poetry, the Fund for Canadian Studies, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the University Center for Human Values.
Thinking on the Edge of the Abyss
Co-sponsored with the 20th C. Colloquium, the Bain-Swiggett Lectureship in Poetry, the Fund for Canadian Studies, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the University Center for Human Values.
"The Reformacion of Holy Chirche": The Logic of Vernacular Textual Proliferation, 1375-1415
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Religion.
"Adventures in the Skin Trade: Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko and the Marks of Religion"
Co-sponsored with the University Center for Human Values.
Roundtable Discussion: Documentary Poetics
Co-sponsored with the Program in Asian American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, and the University for Human Values.
2018-2019
Publishing Workshop with Dr. Jessica Wolfe, Articles Editor for Renaissance Quarterly
" 'Men are lived over again': the Transmigrations of Sir Thomas Browne"
Melting Modernities: Ice, Sound, and Revolutions
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left: A Q&A Discussion
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Afterlife of Lady Ermyntrude: Uncanny Archives in Woolf's Between the Acts"
Thomas Hardy's Poetry: Waiting and the Ethics of Attention
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Book Learning
Reception in the Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
Temporal Pulsations: Tishan Hsu in New York and Shanghai
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Contact jkotin@princeton.edu for precirculated paper.
Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
A Colloquium on Style, with Humanities Professor Garrett Stewart, and comments by Jeff Dolven, Claudia Johnson, and Susan Wolfson on Garrett Stewart’s pre-circulated essay “Words,” and snapshots of their own recent work on style, and discussion by all. Reflections on Garrett Stewart’s Reading Voices (1990), what brought it into being from the Yale New Critical World, and how it has mattered to him and others since. “Words” will be available by the first day of spring. This event is sponsored by the Humanities Council and the English Department.
Victorians, Obviously
A Reading by Anne Waldman
Frederick Douglass, New Orleans, and the Possibility of Editorship Studies
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Old English Scribbles: The Intersection of Materiality and Performativity
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Montaigne the Barbarian
"Something Else You Have to Figure In: the Ethical Dilemma of Unreliable Citizenship in Morrison's Home and Jazz"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Failures of Selfhood: Augustine, Hamlet, and the Rise of the Aesthetic"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Meaning in Context
Applied Historical and Corpus Linguistics
Human Scale: Utopia in the Era of Climate Change
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Alice Notley Reading
Reading and Conversation with Joshua Beckman
Speculative Pleasures, "The Archive" and a Pig Roast; Or, Who Are Obour Tanner and Cesar Lyndon
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Playing Songs and Singing Plays: Ballads and Plays in the Early Modern Period
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Mobility and Coloniality: The Politics of Movement and the Mobile Commons
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Poetry Reading with Dorothea Lasky
Curious Creatures: Sentience, Imitation, and the Case of the Medieval Ape
"Willing Wandering: Being mobile between creative and critical imaginaries"
Panel Discussion: Ethics and Victorian Studies
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Meaning in Language: A Computer's Perspective
On Postcolonial Tragedy: Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts
A Reading with Tom Pickard
The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
Disciplines of Language
Co-sponsored by the Theory Colloquium and the Princeton University Graduate School.
2017-2018
Tolerating Enthusiasts
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Title TBA
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Black Digitality
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Thinking with Characters: Rumination and the Concept of Moral Time
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Best of Melodramas, the Worst of Histories: Theory of History in A Tale of Two Cities"
The Hypocritical Figure
A reception in the Thorp Library will follow talk.
Alchemy in African/American Poetry: Experimental Ekphrasis
Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Crashaw After Petrarch: Lyrics Against the World
Reception in the Thorp Library to folow talk.
Decolonizing Climate Justice: Indigenous Movements
Lunch will be provided.
Poetry Reading by Morgan Parker
An Owl, a Nightingale, and Nature's Innate Unnaturalness
State of the Field: Victorian Studies
Lyric Thinking: Humanism, Poetry, Modernity
Please review introduction prior to talk. Introduction available from Mary Prokop (mprokop@princeton.edu)
Reception in Thorp Library following talk.
Afro-Feminism Before Afro-Pessimism
Please contact Kimberly Bain (kbain@princeton.edu) prior to talk to obtain copies of readings.
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"To 'Whistle / in the Fasces of Uniform Graphemes': Babel After Fascism"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
An Owl, a Nightingale, and Nature's Innate Unnaturalness
"Hamlet and the Natural History of Human Being, circa 1600"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
On Handsomeness, Considered as a Category of Aesthetics
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Otters and Others: British and Irish Poetry
"King Lear and its Origins"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
" 'In the cowslips peeps I lye': Romantic Botany and Telling the Time of Day by the Light of the Anthropocene"
Samuel Johnson's Chemical Ethic
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2016-2017
Migrants and Truth Production, 1400-1700
A daylong conference on the significance of migration to the literary, cultural, and intellectual history of the early modern period, featuring a keynote from Christopher Wood, Professor of German at New York University.
Please join us for a lecture by Chloë Kitzinger, a Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows, and Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanistic Studies at Princeton. Her talk is entitled “Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel.” A reception will follow in the Thorp Library. Professor Kitzinger has also agreed to have dinner with a group of grad students after the reception, to discuss her experiences as a postdoc, on the job market, etc.
After the Future: Notes on Black Elegiac Feel
A conversation with Paul North, Professor of German at Yale, about his 2015 study of Franz Kafkaâ's ZÃrau Aphorisms.
We're delighted that Professor Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley) will be coming on Thursday, April 20th at 4:30 to give a talk on "Dickens’s Teratology: The Natural History of Bleak House." His paper explores how the transformist biology of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Geoffroy St. Hilaire, popularized by Robert Chambers in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, provides a philosophical framework for Dickens's aesthetic challenge to the ascendant norms of Victorian realism.
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945 (Brickhouse)
The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Kazanjian)
"The voice explaining at once formally and intimately": James Merrill's 'Cavafy' and the Poetics of Intimacy
This graduate student conference will examine how conceptions of the natural and the unnatural fundamentally shape cultural expression in 19th-Century Britain. From Charles Darwin’s theory of ‘natural selection’ to John Ruskin’s treatise on the ‘Nature of the Gothic,’ the language of ‘nature’ as inevitable and inherent identity is a formative trope that appears in everything from discussions of politics to theories of painting.
Professor Castell presented his work on Romanticism in the Anthropocene, a uniquely interdisciplinary event that attracted students from various departments (science as well as humanities fields) and put the humanities in conversation with environmental sciences.
Co-sponsored by Princeton University Environmental Institute.
The Victorian Colloquium is welcoming Professor Elaine Hadley (U of Chicago) at 4:30 pm in the Hinds Library to give a talk about Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and education as it is figured in labor and economic terms set out by Gary Becker. It promises to be a fascinating presentation--one that is equally illuminating about Victorian literature and our own standing as 'laborers' in the academic profession.
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Spies Not Like Us: Yellow Peril and the Fictions of National Security and Immigration Control
Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England
"Poetry Reading with Robert Perelman"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Poetry and the Past in the Late Plays"
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Mad World Spectator: An Experiment in Literary Psychohistory"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"All Things with Double Terror: Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton's Paradise Lost"
The colloquium collaborated with Susan Wolfson to organize an interactive roundtable seminar with Paul Hamilton on Felicia Hemans, in which graduate students in our department had the opportunity to closely read Hemans’ poems along with Professor Hamilton’s expert guidance.
This event was a collaboration between our colloquium and Comparative Literature, German, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and the Theory Colloquium. Professor Balfour gave a lively presentation on the aesthetics of the sublime and inversion.
"Kubrick's Shakespeare: War, Literature, and Taste"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London), long-term visiting fellow at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, will speak on "The Victorian Novel: A Challenge to Some Orthodoxies," at 4:30 pm in the Hinds Library. You are also invited to a reception honoring Professor Armstrong at the home of Professor Claudia Johnson. This event is co-sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century / Romantic Studies Colloquium.
Anahid Nersessian presented a thought-provoking paper on obscurity in Wordsworth, which was followed by a lively discussion with graduate students and faculty.
Please join us on the patio of the Yankee Doodle Tap Room (inside, in case of inclement weather) at 4:30 pm for our annual happy hour. Enjoy the company of fellow Victorianists, learn about the year’s upcoming events, and kick off the fall semester!
2015-2016
Punch, Counter-Punch: Mimicry, Parody and Critique in the Colonial Public Sphere
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Erich Auerbach's Mimesis and the Value of Scale
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow reception.
Serial Matters: Temporalities for Reading Victorian Fiction
Reception to be held in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, following talk.
Butterfly Effects in Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Poetry Reading
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Q&A: Scholarly Prose: Making It Clear, Making It Catchy
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Postcoloniality and the Anthropocene
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow event.
Erich Auerbach's Mimesis and the Value of Scale
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow reception.
Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Graduate Student Meeting and Conversation with Mark Rifkin
Lunch will be provided.
Jonson's Tacitean History, Political Spectatorship, and the History of Reading
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
What is DH in English?
The Poor Indian Prince
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Coventry Patmore and the Feeling of Forms
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Department of English Victorian Colloquium and the Center for Digital Humanities.
Cracking the Blazon, Dismantling the Human: Jonathan Swift's Figuration of the Female Body in his Birthday Poems to Stella and "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed"
The Scandal of a Black Ulysses: Wallace Thurman, Bruce Nugent,and the Harlem Reception of Joyce
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow event.
Colonial Americas Workshop presents Peter Mancall
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of English
Pedantry, Nonsense, and Love's Labour's Lost
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Historical Registers, Hotch-Potch Sport: Henry Fielding and the Play as Newspaper
The Feelings that Persist After History Ends
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Hogarth's Antimimetic Manifesto
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We SHOULD Be Talking About
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry
"What is Narrative Pace, and How Does It Create Literary Meaning?"
Princeton African Humanities Colloquium
http://pahc.princeton.edu/colloquium/african-memory-2015/
With the support of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Program in African Studies, and the Department of English.
“Infernos and Half-Opened Windows: Tragic Vision in Assia Djebar’s Le blanc de l’Algérie”
"Imagining an English Jamaica"
Professor Carla Pestana will present a pre-circulated paper from her new work on the early modern Caribbean.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of English.
http://www.princeton.edu/cch/events/workshops/caw/?utm_source=CCH+Weekly...
Poetry Reading with Morgan Parker and Matthew Rohrer
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
The Fiction of Law in Shakespeare and Spenser
"Human Qualifications in Milton"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Unfinished" -- a lecture about Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Brueghel's "The Fall of Icarus"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Hamlet as Poet"
Please contact Tom Clayton (jtc4@princeton.edu) for copy of pre-circulated paper.
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2014-2015
"Judging Inevitable: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding's Joseph Andrews"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Temptations: Donna Haraway, Feminist Objectivity, and the Problem of Critique"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Form As/Against History: De Man, Baudelaire, and the Antinomies of the 'New Formalism' "
A reception will follow the reading. Join us in 20 McCosh Hall (Thorp Library).
Craig Dworkin is the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer in Poetry at the Department of English, Princeton.
Sponsored by the English Department Graduate Action Committee
Lunch will be provided
Lunchtime discussion event. Jennifer Scappettone will present a pre-circulated paper. Email osxr@princeton.edu for a pdf of the paper.Lunch provided.
"Year of the Long Poem Roundtable"
Co-sponsored by the English Department's Americanist Colloquium, Victorian Colloquium and 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium
"The Angle of Thought: Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the Scientific Imagination"
"Seeing the Future: The 'Colorblind' Present and Blackness Past"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Sporting with Sacred Things"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Over a Century of Shipwrecks: American Child Readers of Robinson Crusoe"
"Circumstantial Shakespeare"
"Wallace Stevens in Extremis"
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
"Emerson's Humiliation: On Shame, Respect, and Reform"
Contact Melissa Tuckman (mtuckman@princeton.edu) for a pre-circulate portion of the paper.
"Wordsworth's Ruins"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"From Sympathy to Care: Relational Ethics and Daniel Deronda"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Tense Future: From Aeriality to Perpetual Interwar"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"New Postcolonial Subjects"
Organized by the English Department's Postcolonial Colloquium
RSVP Required -- newsubjects0313@gmail.com
"Sin and Structure in Piers Plowman: Apocalypse, Teleology, Demand"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Anarchic Regard: Amiri Baraka, Cecil Taylor, and the Sounds of Black Thought"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow the talk.
"Mansfield Park: Sir Thomas Bertram in Antigua"
"Habit, Routine, Repetition: Nineteenth-Century Literary and Social Forms"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Thin Red Line, Wallace Stevens, and the Problem of the War Hero"
"The Baroque Donne"
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the University Center for Human Values, the Council of the Humanities
" 'Grace in 14 Lines': A Poetry Reading by Bernadette Mayer and Chris Nealon"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
" 'The Price of Value' -- on Poetry & Economics, Boethius and Contemporary Poetry"
Please contact Orlando Reade (osxr@princeton.edu) to receive a copy of the precirculated paper.
Lunch will be provided.
"Passing for Post-Racial: The Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Ethics and Aesthetics of Vernacular Devotion: The Cloud of Unknowing"
Lunch will be provided.
"Water, Money, Waste: Poetry and the Environment"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
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A reading and discussion on the work of
A reception will follow the reading.
"Lotteries, Judgments, and Choices in The Merchant of Venice: The Casket Scenes and the Philosophy of Action"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Reading from Behind: Thinking Through Male/Male Romance Novels"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
" 'Passages often sound exactly like poetry': Un-Reading George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy"
Refreshments will be provided.
"A Discussion of George Eliot's 'Spanish Gypsy' "
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Poetry Reading: Aaron Kunin 'Reading' His 'Poetry' "
Refreshments will be provided.
"The Wealth of Characters"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Our Twentieth Centuries: A Faculty Round Table"
Refreshments will be provided.
"The Year of the Long Poem: Reading William Blake's The Book of Urizen"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Year of the Long Poem: A Discussion of Blake's The Book of Urizen"
"Our Twentieth Centuries: A Faculty Round Table"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2013-2014
"Milton's Pope"
Snacks and refreshments will be available during the talk.
A Seminar: "Scenelessness" in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
"Experimental Maxims in English Literary Satire from Francis Bacon to Samuel Richardson"
"The Scholar as Artist or: A Conversation on Writing Poetry and Fiction As An Academic"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Caucus Racing"
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Enjoyment, Enslavement, and the Queerness of Bad Education"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Stuart Hall's Voice"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Criminal Sovereignties: Literature, Decolonization, and International Law"
"Georgic Fantasies: James Grainger and the Poetics of West-Indian Sugar"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium and the Program in American Studies.
"A Poetry Reading
Reception to be held in 40 McCosh Hall following the talk.
"Sir Kenelm Digby's Interruptions: Piracy and the Form of Romance in the 1620s"
" 'What do you want?' Noise and Political Desire on the Cusp of Black Power"
"Renaissance Drama and Social Cognition"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
MARK ANTHONY NEAL: "TRAPPED IN THE SOUL CLOSET
Mar 27, 2014, 4:30 p.m. · Room 106, Woolworth Center
Mark Anthony Neal Duke University "Trapped in the Soul Closet" Thursday March 27 at 4:30 pm Woolworth 106 Cosponsored by the Department of English and the Program in American Studies Support provided by the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts Thanks to the Program for Gender and Sexuality Studies for additional co-sponsorship
"Romantic Writing in Rome and (Post) Napoleonic Cultural Property"
Reception in Thorp Library will follow talk.
" 'The Princess Steel': Du Bois's Fantasy Fiction"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Unhuman Condition (Hannah Arendt/Bruno Latour)"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Milton's Theban Saga"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of Classics and the Program in Canadian Studies
"History as Seduction: Wilde and the Fascination of Heredity"
"How Injury Travels"
"Grammars of Approach: Architecture, Typography, and Narrative Consciousness"
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
"The Community of Others"
"John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Culture"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Science, Fiction, and Literary Method"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
“A Poetry Reading by Ariana Reines and Cecilia Vicuña”
Reception at the Joseph Henry House to follow talk.
"Why Shylock Loses His Case: Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"George Eliot's Vagueness"
" 'It Was Not Sepia, Georgia, but a Backwoods Village in Barbados:' The Folk, Empire and Modernity in Jean Toomer's Cane and Eric Walrond's Tropic Death"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Time, Tragedy, and the Book of Doctor Faustus"
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Sisterhood and the Voiceless Language of E.M. Forster's Howards End"
" 'Books--and crime, of course': Dorothy L. Sayers, Metatext, and Genre Anxiety"
Title TBA
Part of the Musicology Colloquium Series 2013-14
Microrhythm in Groove-based Music
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Program in American Studies
For more information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/music/
"Critical Race Personhood"
"From Seminar Paper to Article"
Lunch will be provided
Sponsored by the Department of English.
"Natural Histories from the Future: On WALL-E and The Road"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Poetry Reading by Tom Pickard and Rich Owens"
"A Discussion with Tom Pickard, Rich Owens and Meredith Martin"
Lunch will be provided.
"Natural History, Indian Vocabularies, and the Sovereignty of Land and Language in Jeffersonian America"
Lunch will be provided
"Doctrines and Credibility: Nuclear Strategy, Rawlsian Liberalism, and New Journalism"
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
"Erasmus and the Invention of Literature"
Lunch will be provided.
"Is the (American) Western an Irish Genre?: John Ford and Empire"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"After Benjamin: Theorizing Visual Culture in the Victorian Mediascape"
Intersections Joint Lecture/Conversation: A Jazz Studies Critical Conversation
Brent Edwards: http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/381
Kevin Young: http://www.blueflowerarts.com/booking/kevin-young
Kevin Young, biography:
"Queer Immobility and the History of the Novel"
"Syllogisms and Tears in Timon of Athens"
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
"Translators on Translation: The Anglo-French Divide"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2012-2013
"A Romance Re-Tailored: Sartor Resartus and the Love Letters of Jane and Thomas Carlyle"
Title TBA
" 'A Fossil of Time Future': J.G. Ballard's Shanghai"
Title TBA
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
“A Sensorimotor Collapse? Deleuze, Rancière, Cinema, Literature”
"Violence, Racial Uplift, and the Personal Form," from Black Writers and the Unhistoric Life of Race (manuscript in progress)
"Presence of Mind"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Author of 88 Sonnets and Book Beginning What and Ending Away
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
" 'Reckitt's Blue': A Reading and Discussion"
"Shakespeare versus Blackfriars, 1600-1604"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Development, Debt, Detention: The Politics of Indebtedness from the Pacific Way to the Pacific Solution"
"In the Workshop of My Imagination: Laborious Creativity in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"
"The Poetics of Disfluency: Blert"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Sibling Rivalry as Narrative Form in Eliot's Mill on the Floss"
"Maxims, Madmen, and Misanthropes: Frnacis Bacon Meets Jonathan Swift"
"The Bard, the Bible, and Victorian Interpretation"
"The 20th Century Geopolitics of the American Southwest"
"Gulliver's Travels, Anti-Slavery and Empire"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Threshold Songs: A Reading and Discussion"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
" 'Oh God, There is No Woman in This': A Marriage Below Zero, the Somerset Family Scandals, and the Sodomitical Threat to the Victorian Family"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"However Incompletely, Human: Crusoe, Colonial Corporations, and Other Partial Creatures of Human Rights"
"Romanticism, Inc.: New Critical Professionalism and the Appreciation of Wordsworth"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Modernist Butterfly: Subtle Mimicry in the Early Twentieth Century Novel"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"The Error of Our Eye Directs Our Mind: Shakespeare on Romantic Misapprehension
"The Storms Behind the Storm We Feel: Melville's Civil War Weather Reports"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium -- "How To Do Things with Books"
A reception in the Thorp Library will follow the talk.
20th Century Colloquium -- "Beyond Interdisciplinarity: Indication, Togetherness, and Jamesian Modernism"
Renaissance Colloquium - "Catastrophizing: On Reading Disastrously in Shakespeare and Montaigne"
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium -- "A Poetry Reading with Sharon Mesmer and K. Silem Mohammad"
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium -- "The Evening of the Poem: A Celebration of James Schuyler"
Americanist Colloquium -- "Oceanic Studies and the Terraqueous Planet"
Title TBA
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk
"'Natural Magic': Harriet Martineau and the Body in Pain"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk
Lecture by short-term visiting fellow Stephen Orgel. More information to follow.