"D.H. Lawrence, Misogynist?"--Dr. Erin Johns Speese's Current Thoughts Lecture

The English Graduate Organization

Proudly Presents:

“D.H. Lawrence, Misogynist?: The Possibility of Sublime Intersubjectivity in

The Rainbow”

By (the new) Dr. Erin Johns Speese

Spring 2013 Current Thoughts Series Lecture

18 Mar. 2013 at 4PM

Colson 130

Doctoral Conference Presentations, Part 4

In yet another entry in our continuing series on graduate research, I'm pleased to announce the following conference presentations:

Andrea Bebell:

“‘Pass the Plum-Pudding’: Resistance and Community Building in Flora Annie Steel’s The Reformer’s Wife.” Victorians Institute Conference: DISRUPTING VICTORIAN STUDIES: Inconvenient Facts, Shocking Discoveries, Surprising Events, Forgotten Voices, Unknown Writings, Mangled Texts, University of South Carolina, Columbia, October 3-4, 2008

"Subaltern Maternalism in Baharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World," The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 19-12, 2009

Luminita Dragulescu:

“Spiegelman’s Maus: Negotiating between Personal Trauma and Restorative History,” The 32nd WVU Colloquium on Language and Literature, Morgantown, WV, 13-15 September, 2008

Courtney Novosat:

"Digital Literacy: Information Revolution (in a Capitalist Bell Jar?)," College English Association, Pittsburgh, March 26-28, 2009

Doctoral Conference Presentations, Part 3

In yet another entry in our continuing report on doctoral student conference presentations for the year (and as further evidence of the department's need for a private jet to support student research), I'm pleased to announce the following presentations:

Jim Greene:

“Speech and Memory; Text and History: Transcribing the Crispus Attucks Commemorations,” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 2008

Jeremy Justus:

“Autopoeitic Meta-et-cetera: The Body in the Blind Spot in Hassan Elahi’s Tracking Transience.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY. February 2009

“Web 2.0 and the Expansion of the Filmic Event.” Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. December 2008

Lori Zerne:

"'What Wonder, What Strange Revolution': Gender, Class, and Pleasure Gardens in Evelina," Burney Society Conference, Newberry Library, Chicago, October 2-3, 2008

"'Too Much Beauty to Escape Notice': Women, Beauty, and Courtship Ideology in Frances Burney’s Evelina,"American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Richmond, March 26-28, 2009

Doctoral Conference Presentations, Part 2

As the second installment in our summary of doctoral student research during 2008-2009, I'm pleased to announce the following conference presentations:

Teresa Pershing, "Lesbian (Out)Skirts: A Consideration of Lesbian Representation via Pop Culture Figures," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 8-11, 2009

Sohinee Roy, "South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An Event that Launched a Process," South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Louisville, KY, November 7 – 9, 2008

Rebecca Skidmore Biggio, "Resurrecting the Black Prophet: The Politics of Insurrection in Pauline Carrington Bouve's Their Shadows Before," MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008

Doctoral Conference Presentations: Part 1

As the first entry in our (school)year-end summary of doctoral students' conference presentations during the 2008-2009 academic year, I'm pleased to report that Beth Staley gave the following presentations:

“The Architecture/Architexture of the Archive,” Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, December 26 – 29, 2008

“Voicescapes in Dickinson’s Late Fragments,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Louisville, KY, November 7 – 9, 2008

“Editing Dickinson – Inevitable Antinomy, Architextural Possibility,” Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 24 – 26, 2008

“Voice Loops through Brenda Hillman’s Pieces of Air in the Epic – Articulating the Social Lyric,” Lifting Belly High Conference on Women’s Poetry since 1900, Duquesne University, September 12 – 14, 2008

“‘Sequence ravelled / out of Sound –’ or ‘reach –’—Dickinson and the Provisions of Language,” Emily Dickinson International Society Discussion Institute, Amherst College, August 1 – 3, 2008