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• Critical Karaoke: Encore Tour

  01/25/2019 04:00 PM

  This event invites participants to think in concert about our sociopolitical soundscape and to kick off the Spring 2019 semester with a convivial yet critical listening. Read more

• Queer Milton

  02/01/2019 04:00 PM

  This book launch and roundtable celebrates the release of the landmark collection Queer Milton, an overdue intervention in the field of Milton criticism. Read more

• Speak so you can speak again: Renunciation as Resistance

  02/08/2019 04:00 PM

  Speak so you can speak again: Renunciation as Resistance-- On Mother Catherine Seals and the Temple of Innocent Blood A Job Talk by Jean Mills, John Jay College/CUNY Read more

• What Infrastructure Assumes: Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies

  02/15/2019 04:00 PM

  In this talk, Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara) positions the digital humanities in relation to current "critical infrastructure studies." Read more

• A Tribute to the Life and Work of Meena Alexander

  02/22/2019 04:00 PM

  Please join the GC English community in a celebration of the life and writing of Meena Alexander. 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