Shannon Winnubst will speak on “After Sex, Inside Race: Living Difference in the 21st Century” on Tuesday, October 3rd at 4:30 in DeTamble Auditorium as part of the Dean Family Series. What if sexuality is in decline? What if one of the most powerful apparati of modernity is […]
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“Hieroglyphs of Blackness: Egypt, Fantasy, and the American Imaginary”examines representations of Egypt to reconceptualize the meanings and limits of transnational affinity relative to discourses about the black diaspora. Covering a long historical arc from the 18th century to the present, with particular attention to the […]
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The talk entitled “De-Ciphering American Literature: 1945-1840-2016” links American literature to the information age. Those interested in the digital humanities as well as American literature will find this talk on Poe and Claude Shannon (the ‘father’ of information theory) of special interest. The event will […]
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Gordon Hutner is a professor of American Literature at the University of Illinois, where he directs the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures. Professor Hutner is the author and editor of several books in American literature and culture, including What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960. His most […]
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Ben Schreirer will speak on “The History of Jewish American Literary History” on Thursday, March 31 at 4 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium. Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies, Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director of the Jewish Studies […]
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Richard Begam will speak on “From Automaton to Autonomy: Mechanical Reproduction in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis” on Wednesday, March 23, at 4:30 in Tribble C216. A reception will follow in Ammons Lounge, A107. Begam considers issues of modernism and modernity in Fritz Lang’s 1927 cinematic masterpiece, Metropolis. […]
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CAS Assistant Professor of English at Boston University, Carrie Preston studies the highly traditional form of Noh Japanese dance as part of her research on Yeats’ dance plays. Preston is pictured in dance attire from Japan including footwear (tabi) and a fan. Photo […]
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Wednesday, March 18 at 4:30 p.m.Tribble Hall, Room C216Reception follows in Ammons Lounge A Lecture by Lauren Berlant Sponsored by the Dean Family FundLiving in Ellipsis: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life Dr. Lauren Berlant, a George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in the […]
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