Americanist Colloquium
Americanist Colloquium
The Americanist Colloquium brings together graduate students and faculty interested in exploring topics in American literature and in American Studies in general. Our scope is wide, open to all categories of critical interest and ranging, historically, from pre-Colonial America to the present. Past events have addressed questions of sovereignty, settler-colonialism, cultural studies, speculative fiction, legal studies, and more. We organize a variety of events—talks, reading groups, workshops, mini-conferences, film screenings, and symposia—with the aim of building a community involved in the relevant issues of the field today. Recent guests of the colloquium include Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Jordan Stein, Mark Rifkin, David Kazanjian, and Edlie Wong.
Past Events
2018 - 2019
Melting Modernities: Ice, Sound, and Revolutions
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Temporal Pulsations: Tishan Hsu in New York and Shanghai
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Frederick Douglass, New Orleans, and the Possibility of Editorship Studies
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"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.
Speculative Pleasures, "The Archive" and a Pig Roast; Or, Who Are Obour Tanner and Cesar Lyndon
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2017-2018
Black Digitality
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Alchemy in African/American Poetry: Experimental Ekphrasis
Decolonizing Climate Justice: Indigenous Movements
Lunch will be provided.
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.
2016-2017
After the Future: Notes on Black Elegiac Feel
"The voice explaining at once formally and intimately": James Merrill's 'Cavafy' and the Poetics of Intimacy
Spies Not Like Us: Yellow Peril and the Fictions of National Security and Immigration Control
Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Mad World Spectator: An Experiment in Literary Psychohistory"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.