• 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

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

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).

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.

Glyn Salton-Cox is a graduate student in the Yale English Department.

Katie Trumpener is Professor of Comparative Literature and English.

The T&MS Colloquium meets to discuss short pre-circulated papers by Salton-Cox and Professor Trumpener, titles TBA.

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).