Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 4:00pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum American photojournalist Chris Capozziello will be giving a talk (part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series) about how he’s used photography as a source of self-reflection. His work has been published and…
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 4:00pm, 319 Gregory Hall Loyola University Chicago historian Elliott J. Gorn will be speaking about his new book on Emmett Till and the civil rights movement in America, examining how racism remains deeply rooted in America.…
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 12:00pm, Room 101, ISB, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign Susan Ogwal will be discussing the experiences of Black African immigrants transitioning to the United States by examining U.S higher education policy and employment. More information is…
Monday, February 18, 2019, 4:00-5:30pm, 307 Gregory Hall Benjamin Looker, an Associate Professor of American Studies at St. Louis University will be discussing conflicted notions of local freedom and neighborhood belongingness in a mixed-income housing development. More information is available…
Monday, February 18, 2019, 5:00pm, 1090 Lincoln Hall More information is available here.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 12:00pm, Asian American Cultural Center (1210 W. Nevada, Urbana) Teresa Mok will be speaking about how media images of Asian Americans affect self-concept, gender roles, and perception of attractiveness. More information is available here.
LUCY ELLIS LOUNGE, 1080 FOREIGN LANGUAGE BUILDING. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018 9:45-5:00 PM This symposium takes up the developing interest in studying the relation between American economics and literary history. Literary scholars have been lately considering such issues as capital, credit,…
Howard Horwitz teaches at the University of Utah, where he is professor of English. In both his teaching and research, he examines the relations between literary form and conception of social interaction and social order. He has written many articles…
Katherine Adams is Associate Professor and Kimmerling Chair in English at Tulane University. She is author of Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing (2009); editor of “US Women Writing Race,” a 2009 special issue of TSWL; and co-editor…
Elizabeth Hewitt’s work concentrates on pre-1900 American and African American literature. Along with her book on correspondence and American political theory, Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865(2005), she has also published essays on Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Charles Chestnutt, and antebellum business…