The Twentieth-Century Colloquium provides a forum for new research on 20th-century literature in Great Britain, Ireland, North America, and world-wide.
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- Colin Gillis & John Muse
Thursday, January 14 at 4:00, LC 319
Colin Gillis and John Muse are Ph.D. candidates in the English Department. The titles of their presentations are TBA.
- Seminar with Franco Moretti
Wednesday, February 3 at 12:00, LC 319
Franco Moretti is The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is author of Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005).
- Kevin Dettmar
Thursday, February 18 at 4:00, LC 319
Kevin Dettmar is Professor of English of Pomana College and the Department Chair.
He splits his research and teaching between British & Irish modernism, esp. James Joyce, and contemporary popular music. He is the editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, editor for Oxford University Press of the book series Modernist Literature & Culture, and general editor of the Longman Anthology of British Literature.
- Elizabeth Anker
Thursday, February 25 at 4:00, LC 319
Elizabeth Anker is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell U. She is currently completing a book, The Human Rights Paradox: The Postcolonial Novel and the Claims of Theory, that intervenes within contemporary debates about the many ways that narrative literature informs the international culture of human rights. She will precirculate a paper whose title will be announced shortly.
- James Longenbach
Thursday, April 1 at 4:00, LC 319
James Longenbach is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is a poet and critic who has written widely about modern and postmodern poetry. His most recent critical work, The Art of the Poetic Line, is an account of the work of lineation in free-verse, syllabic, and metered poetry (ranging from Shakespeare to Ashbery).