Dear all,

We are excited to announce the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultures Workshop’s Autumn 2025 schedule. The workshop will meet on Tuesdays from 11 am – 12:20 pm in Wieboldt 103.

Tuesday, October 28

Julia Kopesky, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

“Recovering Michel Renville’s Dakota Stories, 1879–1893”

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Tuesday, November 11

Lisa Bognenko, PhD candidate in English, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, CNRS / IRL Humanities Plus

“Proscribed Circulations: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Architecture of Black Breathing in the Colored American Magazine (1900–1904)”

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Tuesday, November 18

Nate Crocker, PhD candidate in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago

“The Sound of Reading ‘the printless air’: Milton, Media, and Meteorology in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound … with Other Poems (1820)”

In addition, please note the following special event, which will be of interest to many in our workshop community:

Thursday, October 30, 12:30 – 2 pm, Smart Museum of Art

Global Symbolism

A discussion with Stefano Evangelista and curators from the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Materials for the workshop, as well as the schedule and any updates will be available on our website. This workshop is always open to anyone interested in any aspect of literature and cultures in the 18th- and 19th-centuries. We look forward to welcoming both new and regular attendees.

We are committed to making the workshop accessible for all interested attendees. Please email Noa (noasmyers@uchicago.edu) or Bradford (bkcase@uchicago.edu) with any questions or requests.

We look forward to seeing you at our sessions this quarter!

Bradford Case & Noa Stolzenberg-Myers