An American Literary History Symposium

Friday, April 23rd
Illini Union, Room 407

• 10:00am – Gordon Hutner, Introductory Remarks
• 10:15am – Elizabeth Anker (Cornell), “Mad Men, Faling Men, and the 9/11 Novel”
• 11:15am – Daniel Grausam (Washington U), “After the Post: Philip Roth, Colson Whitehead, and the Disappearance of Stamps”
• 2:00pm – Rolland Murray (Brown), “The Negativitiy of Blackness Reconsidered”
• 3:00 – Andrew Hoberek (Missouri), “Cormac McCarthy and the Poetics of Exhaustion”

Sponsored by the Trowbridge Office of American Literature, Culture and Society.