Friday, September 16, 2022, 10AM-5PM209 Illini Union Unpublished America is a Trowbridge symposium that brings together ongoing research projects exploring the hidden archives of American literary history. Our participants will be engaging in a lively discussion of the epistemology of the…
Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, 2022, 9:15am-4:05pm (Friday) and 9:15am-12:05 (Saturday) 209 Illini Union Zoom Registration: https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElde2rqjsiHNe6bQXS-MgC0KgvgKn2H342 Recent history has provoked new questions about democratic processes broadly and the function of the novel at the present time. Democracy…
Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/98567064326?pwd=Umxvdks0dFNQVkE2d005YWJSNHN1dz09 Password: 2ndBook20 Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2020 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…
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…
Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, 2:30-3:30 PM, English Building 259 Co-editor of J19, Elizabeth Duquette sits down for a colloquium on the ins and outs of publishing in academic journals. This event is sponsored by the Departments of English, French, and Italian,…
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building Friday, October 25, 2019, 9:30am-4:30pm 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…
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 5:00pm, Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana) This event is part of the 21st Century Jewish Writing and the World writers series. More information is available here.
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…
Main Library, rm. 220 Friday, March 1, 2019, 9:45am-4:30pm 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…
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,…