Date: October 10, 2014, Time and Location Forthcoming Nathan Blake (Northeastern U), “The ‘Crippled Soldier Problem’ and Rationalized Images of Ability” This presentation analyzes the post–World War I discourses of disability, masculine agency, and human-machine systems primarily through the…
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Non-instrumental disciplines, and the humanities in particular, seem increasingly marginalized in public universities, which have struggled in the past quarter century to respond to the collapse of state funding. Situating itself between the 150th anniversary of the first Morrill Act…
Novermber 12, Lewis Center Reading Room. 10:00am – Christopher Looby (UCLA), “The Literariness of Sexuality: or, How to Do the (Literary) History of (American) Sexuality” 11:00am – Lisa Brooks (Amherst College), “Locating American Literature in Native Space” 2:00pm – Jennifer…
October 28, 2011, 9:45am – 3:30pm 211 Illini Union 10:00am – Deak Nabers (Brown), “Idle Violence: World War II and Aesthetics of Liberalism in the United States, 1941-1969” 11:00am – Erica Edwards (UC-Riverside), “The Other SIde of Terror: African American…
Henry Henderson, Exexutive Director, Midwest Chapter, National Resources Defense Council February 10, 2011, Illini Union Room 210 Sponsored by the Trowbridge Office for American Literature, Culture, and Society; Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities This event is free and open…
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:…
American Medievalism: A Symposium Monday, October 6, Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room (1st floor) 9:30am – David Matthews (Manchester): “Importing the Middle Ages: American Medievalisms, Medieval Studies and the Legitimization of Culture”, Commentary by Bruce Michelson (English) 10:45am – Bruce…
Thursday, September 24, Illini Union Room 406 9:30am Susan Parrish (Michigan), “Rummaging: The Archive and Early American Literary Studies”, Commentary by Melissa Littlefield (UIUC, English) 10:45am – Gordon Sayre (Oregon), “Transnationalism and Early American Literary Studies”, Commentary by Brian Edwards…