Seminars

Revolt or Reinvention?: Citizenship in the Contemporary Literary Imagination

Organizer: Daniel Bergman

Is it time to stop fantasizing about citizenship? In a provocative 2022 essay, the political theorist Linda Bosniak answers in the affirmative: if the twenty-first century has been primarily defined... more

Migration, Speech and Literary Form

Organizer: Andrew Koenig

This panel takes as its jumping off point the centrality of unconventional speech in modernism, and the ways that speech is informed by migration. What forms of articulation become available at the... more

Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

Organizer: Alexandra Brown

Agrochemical use has long been a foundational tool to insulate plants against disease and improve yields in global agriculture, yet the 20th century brought with it a slew of changes to farming... more

Translation Futures

Organizer: Anandi Rao

Translators and interpreters in the digital age face manifold opportunities and challenges that are only compounded as Artificial Intelligence in the form of Large Language Models moves into the... more

Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizer: Billie Guarino

On August 9, 2024, a young female doctor was found brutally gang-raped and murdered at the R G Kar hospital in Kolkata, India. In the conversation about sexual violence inflicted on the female doctor... more

Breath Poetics

Organizer: Mae Losasso

There is a long history across traditions linking rhythms of breath to poetic formation, inspiration, invocation, and voice. More recently, the term ‘breath poetics’ has come to refer to a particular... more

Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizer: Simone Murray

Academic literary studies of the early 20th century began by emphatically dissociating itself from popular literary-cultural institutions: periodical book reviewing; mail-order book clubs; and the... more

More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

Organizer: Hsinmei Lin

Worlding, to make or build a world, remains a main objective in the practice of geocriticism, a method of literary analysis or theory that incorporates the study of geographical space. A... more

What is in Plain Sight?

Organizer: Miryam Segal

What keeps us from seeing something hiding in plain sight? Literary critics, like the hero of a detective story, need a puzzle to solve, a question to answer, an elision in the text, an impossible... more

Attending To: Regard and Care

Organizer: Victoria (Tia) Glista

To regard means to look, view, sense, or pay attention to something in a specific way. Its emergence from the French “garder” (to keep) underlines its active quality, as well as the incorporative... more

Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

Organizer: Tegan Zimmerman

Crip theory emerged in the twenty-first century primarily from two interdisciplinary fields: queer theory and disability studies. From Gutter and Killacky’s 2004 collection Queer Crips and McRuer and... more

Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Organizer: Michiel Bot

People protesting the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians have been confronted with an enormous amount of censorship, ranging from the systematic murder of Palestinian journalists, university... more

Postcolonial Perspectives on Injustice and Memory in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys (2019) and Hisham Matar's The Return: A Memoir (2019)

Organizer: Walid Abdallah

This study investigates Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Hisham Matar's The Return: A Memoir, both pivotal works from 2019, through the lens of postcolonial theory. These novels grapple with... more

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Seminars

Revolt or Reinvention?: Citizenship in the Contemporary Literary Imagination

Migration, Speech and Literary Form

Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

Translation Futures

Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Breath Poetics

Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

What is in Plain Sight?

Attending To: Regard and Care

Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Postcolonial Perspectives on Injustice and Memory in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys (2019) and Hisham Matar's The Return: A Memoir (2019)

Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Where are the New Sex Wars?

Caribbean Fiction and the Environment

Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

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