Saturday, April 6, 2019, 12:30pm, 300 Levis Faculty Center Professor Penny Muse Abernathy will be exploring issues concerning journalism in the U.S, the implications for our society, and what people can do to reverse the visible trend seen in the…
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Wohlers Hall 166 Friday, April 5, 2019, 9:30-5:00 This symposium, sponsored by American Literary History and the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures, reassesses genealogies of literary modernity and black writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a…
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00pm, Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall Professor Trinh T. Minh-ha, a world-renowned independent filmmaker and a feminist postcolonial theorist, will be discussing how the singular everyday forms of resistance is capable of changing today’s…
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:00pm, 319 Gregory Hall In this talk, Rebecca Schreiber will argue that Mexican and Central American migrants in the U.S. and U.S.-Mexico borderlands have effectively challenged state surveillance and liberal strategies in their use and remaking…
Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 12:00-1:00pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building More information is available here.
Michael Cohen (UCLA) is an associate professor in the Department of English at UCLA. He teaches and studies the literature of the transatlantic nineteenth century, especially poetry between roughly the 1790s and the 1890s, in the US, but also across…
Michael LeMahieu (Clemson) is an Associate Professor English and a coeditor of Contemporary Literature. His Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 contends that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of…
Judith Madera (Wake Forest) is an Associate professor in English Department and a Research Fellow in Environmental Studies. Her first book, Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and…
Victoria Olwell (University of Virginia) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department. Her first book, The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945, examines how ideas of genius provided…
Friday, March 29 to Saturday, March 30, 2019, 9:00am-5:00pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum (600 S Gregory St, Urbana) More information on the conference/symposium is available here.