For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Friday ForumEnglish »Friday Forum Filter by: Keyword search: Category: English Friday Forum Sort by: Date, Ascending Date, Descending Title, A-Z Title, Z-A Crisis and Catachresis 03/01/2019 04:00 PM A job talk by Mary McGlynn, Baruch College/CUNY Read more Refusing Institutional Whiteness: Possibilities, Alternatives, and Beyond 03/22/2019 04:00 PM Co-Sponsors: GC Poetics Group, Composition and Communications Group, ESA Diversity Committee Read more Clarissa, by the Numbers 03/29/2019 04:00 PM Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Baruch College Samuel Richardson's Clarissa can seem like a novel about the attenuation of the material body, but in tension with such an account, I argue in this talk... Read more Women in Comics: The State of Scholarship and Opportunities for Professionalization 04/05/2019 02:00 PM This panel introduces and explores A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell, a collection of essays co-edited by Seamus O’Malley and Tahneer Oksman (both alums of the... Read more Female Friendship Stories: “Chloe liked Olivia” Redux 04/05/2019 04:00 PM The panel will discuss representations of friendships between women in 20th and 21st century literature, letters, portraits and comics in the context of contemporary studies of women’s lives and... Read more Victorian Studies Conference - "The Wars of Peace: the mundane violence of the Victorians” 05/03/2019 09:00 AM The spectacular claims of the word ‘savage’ can make us expect to see violence as a spectacle. Instead, this conference wants to see violence as the everyday way of life in the 19th century: the... Read more