• 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 Thompson is 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).

Presented by the Americanist Colloquium.

Chris Grobe is a graduate student in the Yale English Department. The T&MS Colloquium meets to discuss his pre-circulated paper, title TBA.

Presented by the Theory and Media Studies Colloquium.

Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and is author of Drown and of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other awards. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, in many issues of Best American Short Stories, in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O’Henry Prize Stories 2009.

He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at The Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of English and African American Studies and Ezra Stiles College.

Presented by the Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series.

Srinivas Aravamudan is Professor of English and Dean of the Humanities at Duke University. He is author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (Duke University Press, 1999) and Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Presented by the Yale English Departmental Lecture Series.

Hilary Menges and Jerry Weng are Ph.D. candidates in the English Department.  The titles of their talks are TBA.

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.

Presented by the Americanist Colloquium.

Dora Malech: Waywiser Press will publish her first full-length collection of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, in Fall 2009. Cleveland State University Poetry Center will publish her second collection of poetry, Say So, in Fall 2010. Currently she teaches at Augustana College in Illinois.

Presented by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium and the Graduates Poets’ Reading Series.

Catherine Nicholson is assistant professor in the English Department at Yale, where she joined the faculty in Fall 2008. Professor Nicholson earned her Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania, and has written essays for ELR and Spenser Studies. Her current research focuses on the role of geography in the emergence of self-consciously new theories and practices of vernacularity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
Presented by the Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium.

Meredith L. McGill is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis. She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), a study of nineteenth-century American resistance to tightening control over intellectual property. This book charts the effect of a decentralized mass-market for print on the development of a national literature, with particular focus on the writing and careers of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. She recently edited a collection of essays, The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, in which a variety of scholars seek to model ways of understanding nineteenth-century poetry within a transatlantic frame. She is currently working on a study of the circulation of poetry in the antebellum United States. Her research interests include the history of the book in American culture, American poetry and poetics, law and literature, literary theory, new media and the history of media shift.

Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is author of The Theorist’s Mother: Origination from Marx to Derrida (forthcoming), Ventriloquisms: On the Literature of Politics (forthcoming), Re-Marx: Life, in Theory (forthcoming). He is co-editor (with Janet Halley) of After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory, editor with an introduction of The Philosopher and his Poor by Jacques Rancière, trans. John Drury, Corinne Oster and Andrew Parker (Durham: Duke UP, 2004), Co-Editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Performativity and Performance (New York: Routledge, 1995), Co-Editor (with Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger) of Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1992).

Presented by the Theory and Media Studies Colloquium.

Franco Moretti is The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor and 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).

Presented by the Yale English Departmental Lecture Series.

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).

David Currell is a 5th year graduate student in the English and Renaissance Studies program. His interests include Classical studies, Renaissance studies, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, psychoanalysis. He is working on a dissertation titled “Epic Satire from Homer to Dryden” under the direction of David Quint.

Presented by the Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium.

Sophie Gee is an Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. She is author of Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination (Princeton UP, 2010) and of the novel The Scandal of the Season (Scribner, 2007).

Presented by the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium.

Kevin Dettmar is Professor of English of Pomana College and the Department Chair.

He spilts 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.

Presented by the Twentieth-Century Colloquium.

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.

“The Past’s Digital Presence”, a digital humanities symposium.  Keynote address by Peter Stallybrass, 9:00 am in LC 102.

Sponsored by the Beinecke Library, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Theory and Media Studies Colloquium, the Yale Department of English, and the Yale Media Studies Collective.

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.

Presented by the Twentieth-Century Colloquium.

Ania Loomba is Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005; with Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Swedish and Indonesian editions) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has co-edited Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998) and Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005), and she has compiled (with Jonathan Burton) Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007)

Presented by the Yale English Departmental Lecture Series.

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).

Presented by the Americanist Colloquium.

Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.  Three days of conference events (March 18^th-20^th) on Yale’s campus.

Hosted by Yale University in collaboration with Connecticut College, Southern Connecticut State University, Trinity College (Hartford), University of Connecticut, and Wesleyan University.

For more information please visit Medieval Academy of America.

Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.  Three days of conference events (March 18^th-20^th) on Yale’s campus.

Hosted by Yale University in collaboration with Connecticut College, Southern Connecticut State University, Trinity College (Hartford), University of Connecticut, and Wesleyan University.

For more information please visit Medieval Academy of America.

Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.  Three days of conference events (March 18^th-20^th) on Yale’s campus.

Hosted by Yale University in collaboration with Connecticut College, Southern Connecticut State University, Trinity College (Hartford), University of Connecticut, and Wesleyan University.

For more information please visit Medieval Academy of America.

Terry Castle is Professor of English at Stanford University. She is author of Clarissa’s Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’ (1982); Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986); The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993); The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995), Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (1996); Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing (2002); and Courage, Mon Amie (2002). She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (2003).

Presented by the Yale English Departmental Lecture Series and the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium.

A reading with Cecily Parks. She is the author of Field Folly Snow, published in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press in their VQR Poetry Series. Her chapbook, Cold Work, won the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship, and her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2007. She is a PhD candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center.

Presented by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium.

Ryan Carr is a graduate student in the Yale English Department. The T&MS Colloquium meets to discuss his pre-circulated paper, title TBA.
He will be joined by a junior faculty respondent / participant (TBA).

Presented by the Theory and Media Studies Colloquium.

School of Criticism and Theory conference:  includes Amanda Anderson, Houston Baker, Jonathan Culler, Brent Edwards, Diana Fuss, Marjorie Levinson, Steve Nichols, Dominic LaCapra and others.

Presented by the Yale English Departmental Lecture Series.

Patricia Dailey is assistant professor in the English and Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University. She specializes in medieval literature and culture (English, Dutch, French, and Italian) and critical theory, focusing on women’s mystical texts, dream visions, Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose, medieval rhetoric and theology. Recent articles include, “Questions of Dwelling in Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Medieval Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape, Body, Mind,” New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006), “The Body and its Senses” and “Time and Memory” in the Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (forthcoming). She is currently working on her manuscript Promised Bodies which focuses on temporality, embodiment, and inscription in medieval women’s visionary texts and Anglo-Saxon poetry. In addition to her work in medieval literature, she has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-François Lyotard, Antonio Negri, and Eric Alliez.

Presented by the Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium.

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).

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.

Rayna Kalas is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Frame, Glass, Verse: the Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance (Cornell, 2007) and has written essays on early modern literature, logic, and poetic theory. Her current research interests include tragicomedy, intellectual labor, and the character of figurative prose in the early modern period.

Presented by the Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium.

Glyn Salton-Cox is a graduate student in the Yale English Department. The T&MS Colloquium meets to discuss his pre-circulated paper, title TBA. He will be joined by a junior faculty respondent / participant (TBA).

Presented by the Theory and Media Studies Colloquium.

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.

Presented by the Americanist Colloquium.