English Department Colloquia

Spring 2008

2/4/2008: Leslie Wingard, "Opening Up: Sacred/Secular Spaces in 'The Sky is Gray' and Nothing But a Man"

2/5/2008 TreaAndrea Russworm, "Hot, Cool, and Handsome: Sidney Poitier and the Mass Attraction of Object Survival"

2/7/2008 Kimberly Brown, "Vantage Points: Visualizing the Body of the Black Diaspora"

2/11/2008 Scott Manning Stevens (St. Regis Mohawk), "The Native Body Collected and the Culture of Display."

2/12/2008 Holiday Party (Faculty Club)

2/19/2008 Mentoring Colloquium – Departmental Expectations in Research, Teaching and Service

2/26/2008 Joseph Black, Nick Bromell and Dave Toomey, “The Graduate
Program's Policies and Prospects: an Open Discussion”

3/4/2008 Department Meeting

3/11/2008 Jordana Rosenberg, “The Dry Transatlantic: Swift's 'City Shower'”

3/18/2008 Spring Break – no colloquium

3/25/2008 Mentoring Colloquium – Research Resources

4/1/2008 Sidney Kaplan Lecture – Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland, “Alice Childress and the African American Literary Left of the 1950s”

4/8/2008 Walker Gibson Lecture – Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Status of Writing"

4/15/2008 Jane Degenhardt, “Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Greene’s Orlando Furioso”

4/22/2008 Dan S. Collins Lecture in Renaissance Studies – Lena Cowen Orlin, Georgetown University, "Hidden from History: Alice Barnham's Life in Tudor London."

4/29/2008 Department Meeting

5/6/2008 Awards Night

All will be held in Bartlett 316. at 4:00 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.