Now and then, humanity shocks itself into brief moments of introspection. We think a bit about the species and the world we have collectively created. For the cultural critic Walter Benjamin, these are moments of danger in which memory flashes up to elucidate — briefly, fleetingly — the violence inherent in everything we tend to touch. Two…

Maureen N. McLane is a poet, scholar, and critic whose work often arises from the conjunction of romanticism and/or now. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG, 2008); World Enough (FSG, 2010); This Blue (FSG, 2014); Mz N: the serial (FSG, 2016); Some Say …

Tara Houska, Couchiching First Nation, will present “Reconnection, Resistance, and Land Back.” This is the third talk in the fall 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium.

An Indigenous perspective on climate and frontline action. What can we do, how do we heal, how does connectivity play a role in movement?

As mainstream theater slowly adopts more transgender-informed casting practices, plays like The Roaring Girl, Middleton and Dekker’s city comedy featuring the notorious and historical Moll Frith, become attractive vessels for nonbinary and genderqueer character readings and staging. While infusions of contemporary stakes…

Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor(2022) explores cultural productions around migrant practices that mark other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative, life-making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped…

In making incarnation a key term for her fiction, George Eliot exemplifies a broader Victorian effort to transmute Christian sentiment into a secular ideal of sympathy and an aesthetic of realism. At the same time, the critical tendency to situate Eliot in relation to a New Testament paradigm has obscured her engagement…

Kevon Rhiney, the 2023 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, traces post-Irma hurricane disaster relief and rebuilding efforts on the eastern Caribbean island of St Martin to…

In this talk, Tita Chico will speak about her current book project, Wonder: Literature and Science in the Long Eighteenth Century (under contract with Cambridge University Press), which looks at wonder as a defining epistemology for what we now understand as literature and science in the period. The Enlightenment has long been…

Pulitzer Prize winning science writer, Ed Yong will draw from his new book An Immense World to reveal the hidden realms of animals’ senses and their astonishingly varied ways of perceiving the world. Yong’s talk will explore why the pandemic was so devastating, and necessary future…

ENGLISH in 50 Years is the Class of 2023's English Major's Colloquium featuring faculty speakers and open to English and English-associated faculty, and the current English concentrators in the Class of 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Colloquium begins at 4:30 pm in East Pyne 010 with a reception dinner to follow at Prospect House. 

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).

Barbara Browning is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Lynn M. Festa, Rutgers University

Associate Professor of English and author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.

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.

“Feral Atlas: Toward a Collaborative Environmental Humanities”

Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:00pm-1:30pm in McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)

Register for pre-circulated materials at https://forms.gle/BnyZEi5mFWzm64EA7

Professor Anna Tsing will gather us for a lunchtime…

Joan K. Copjec is an American philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanian…

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.

Ecotheories Colloquium: 

Kimberly Bain, University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literatures. Kimberly Bain earned a Ph.D. in English and Interdisciplinary Humanistic Study from Princeton University. Bain's most pressing intellectual interests have consolidated around questions of the history, theory,…

This is an announcement for the next meeting of the 20th Century Workshop.