Frances Ferguson Symposium

Date: 
09/29/2017 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
Location: 
106 McCormick Hall (Princeton University Art Museum)
Speakers: 
Speakers include April Alliston, Princeton University; Danielle Bobker, Concordia University; Sophie Gee, Princeton University (closing remarks); Frances Ferguson, Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor of Poetry, Princeton University (closing remarks); Lynn Festa, Rutgers University; Anne-Lise Francois, UC Berkeley; Stephanie Hershinow, Baruch College, CUNY (moderator); Claudia Johnson (Princeton University); Heather Keenleyside, University of Chicago; Wendy Lee, New York University (moderator); Kathleen Lubey, St. John's University (moderator); Ruth Mack, SUNY Buffalo; Sandra Macpherson, Ohio State University; Helen Thompson, Northwestern University; Wendy Warren, Princeton University; Nancy Yousef, CUNY Baruch College; Abigail Zitin, Rutgers University (moderator)

Frances Ferguson, "Rape and the Rise of the Novel" (Representations, 1987).


 

Program Schedule:

9:30-10:30, Approaching the Argument

10:45-12:00, Feminism, Theory, Philosophy

12:00-1:30, Break

1:30-2:45, Genre, Personhood, Form

2:45-3:15, Break

3:15-4:30, Rape Culture and the 18th-Century Studies

4:45, Closing Reflections