The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary) Erica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare. Professor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little--shifting between small things (details, fossilized seashells, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): Chris Chen "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Christopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow […]

John Mowitt The emergent field of "radio studies" has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically, as the name suggests, "radio studies" has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of "journalism and mass communications" to the engagements, at once theoretical and political, of "cultural studies." What […]

Karen Jesny Consonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness, sonority, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977, Pater 1997) […]

Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove” Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel, 19th century Venice, James’s biography, and some literary themes such as don juanism, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of […]

Herman Gray With African Americans as the primary example, Professor Gray probes the social, intellectual, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation, recognition and visibility, he examines what […]

The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Beginning in the 1570s, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to […]