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Lisi Schoenbach

Lisi Schoenbach is an associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches and works on twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on modernism, pragmatism, and political theory. She is the author of Pragmatic Modernism (Oxford,

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The Second Book Project (Spring 2020)

405 Illini Union Friday, March 6, 2020, 9:45am-4:45pm After transforming their dissertations into a first book, many professors turn to a second book project to extend their interest in their field of research and even to clarify their career aims. The

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Christine Holbo

Christine Holbo is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she offers classes on literary realism, the transatlantic tradition of the novel, sentimentalism and affect theory, protomodernisms, regionalisms, little magazines, Pragmatism, and other American errors. She is the author

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Matthew A. Taylor

Matthew A. Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he works on the intersections among 19th– and 20th-century science, literature, and philosophy in a

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Lara Cohen

Lara Langer Cohen is an associate professor of English at Swarthmore College. She is the author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and co-editor, with Jordan Alexander Stein, of Early

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Harilaos Stecopoulos

Harilaos Stecopoulos is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa. Co-editor of Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke, 1997), he is the author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976 (Cornell, 2008).

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CLACS Panel – “Crisis in Puerto Rico”

Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, 3:0 pm, International Studies Building, Rm. 101 Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, this panel will bring together Dr. Antonio Sotomayor of the Latin American and Carribean Library and Dr. Jose Atiles

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Somi Performance

Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, 7:30 pm, Foellinger Great Hall Singer, musician, and recipient of the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album, Somi will be performing in the Foellinger Great Hall on Friday, February 14. This is a ticketed

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Liz Adamo – “Black Women in the French Diasporic Press: Amina Magazine in the 1980s and 90s”

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, 12 pm, International Studies Building, Rm. 101 PhD candidate Liz Adamo will deliver a talk at this brown-bag event, focusing on Amina, a French-language magazine aimed at black women in (among other places) North America and

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Will Wilson – “Artist Talk: The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange”

Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, 7 pm, South Rec Room, Allen Hall Photographer and artist Will Wilson, a member of the Diné nation, will be delivering a talk on Native American representation. More information can be found here.

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