• Departmental Lecture Series
• The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series
• Other Events of Interest

• Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium
• 18th-19th-Century Colloquium
• 20/21 Century Colloquium
• Americanist Colloquium
• Theory & Media Studies Colloquium

• British Studies Colloquium
• Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
• Graduate Poets' Reading Series

“Being Beloved:  Morrison, Heidegger, and Black Anti-Humanism”

Mark Thompsonis Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is interested in 19th and 20th Century American, British, and German literature, Modernism, African-American literature and culture, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, literary theory, philosophy and aesthetics. He is author of Black Fascisms: Fascism in African American Literature and Culture Between the Wars (University of Virginia Press, 2007).

Monique Allewaert specializes in early American literature, circumatlantic studies, eighteenth-century revolutions, and critical theory. She is researching a book that charts an ecological conception of revolution that emerged from American plantation spaces.

Jacqueline Goldsby is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago, author of A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
(Chicago, 2006), and Director of the Archive “Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives” (MTS). This event is held in conjunction with “The Past’s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities” Graduate Conference.

Co-sponsored by the Americanist Colloquium and the Theory & Media Studies Colloquium.

Caleb Smith is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale. He is author of The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009).

Eric Slauter is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at University of Chicago. He is author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution and A second project, currently called A Cultural History of Natural Rights in America, 1689-1789.

Paul Grimstad is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. His book project, Experience and Experimental Writing from Emerson to William James, explores the links between philosophies of experience and literary innovation in Emerson, Poe, Melville, Charles Peirce, William and Henry James, Henri Bergson and John Dewey.