Events
This talk explores the possibility of inventing a new methodology or locating alternative methodologies less reliant upon the disciplines used to generate knowledge about sexuality. It examines the importance of the sexual imaginary’s embodied movement in order to remind us that black imagi
The ascendance of psychology in the twentieth century and beyond has had consequential effects on our frameworks for understanding the moral life. In this talk I will explore the importance of literary and philosophical approaches to moral reflection in the context of influential psychological p
2019-20: Celebrating New Asian American Writing
"A Terrible Beauty is Born: Landscape and Postcolonial History in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood"
An interdisciplinary conference on the intersections of literature and the graphic arts in the long 19th century, to be held at Princeton on October 4-5, 2019.
Guest Speakers: Slavoj Zizek, Jela Krecic and Ben Saunders
Decades before a U.S. national imaginary fixated on the “new frontier” of space colonization, L.A. civil engineer William Mulholland suggested that world-building here on Earth was California’s particular manifest destiny.
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with 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.
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.
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.
This compelling book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English retellings of the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the way they informed and were informed by religious and political developments.
Faculty Seminar for Meredith Martin in the Hinds
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Sponsored by "The Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English" and "The Lewis Center for the Arts."
"Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Medieval Preacher"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
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.
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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.
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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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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: 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.
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.