Spring Quarter

NOTE: due to coronavirus-related campus closures, all workshop meetings for the month of April have been cancelled. Pending further information, the workshop meetings in May might be rescheduled or held via an online platform such as Zoom. Please check back here later for updates.

May 4 – 4:30pm to 5:50pm, Rosenwald 405, Harris Heinsod, Associate Professor of English, Northwestern University

May 18 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Rosenwald 405, Sophia Azeb, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Chicago

June 1 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Rosenwald 405, Zachary Hope, Ph.D Candidate in English, University of Chicago

 

Winter Quarter

January 15 – 4:30 – 6:00pm, Logan 603 – Marissa Fenley, Ph.D Candidate in English at the University of Chicago

Respondent: Tina Post, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Chicago

“John W Cooper’s minstrel ventriloquism and the politics of the color-line barbershop”

This workshop is a collaboration with the TAPS workshop; please note the irregular time and location.

January 27 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Rosenwald 405 – Zoe Hughes, Ph.D Candidate in English, University of Chicago

Respondent: Jordan Pruett, Ph.D Student in English, University of Chicago

“Towards a Playful Reading Practice, or, Gaming at Finnegans Wake”

February 17 – 4:30pm to 5:50pm, Rosenwald 405, Aarthi Vadde, Associate Professor of English, Duke University

“Universal Language Revisited: Communication, Computation, and the Icon-Novel”

Respondent: Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago

February 24 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Rosenwald 405, Upasana Dutta, Ph.D Candidate in English, University of Chicago

“‘The Play’s the Thing’: ‘Acting’ in Haider”

Respondent: Zachary Hope, Ph.D Candidate in English, University of Chicago

March 9 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Rosenwald 405, Laura Colaneri, Ph.D Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago

“The Haunted Southern Cone: Haunted Houses and the Ghosts of the Disappeared in Chile and Argentina”

Respondent: Kaneesha Parsard, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Chicago

 

Fall Quarter 

October 14 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Classics 312 – Jim Hodge, Associate Professor of English and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University

Respondent: Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago

“Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation”

October 28 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Classics 312 – Nicholas Baer, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Respondent: Tom Gunning, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago

“Things As They Could Have Happened”

November 25 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Classics 312, Veerle Dierickx, Ph.D Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago

“The Figure of the Composer on the Eve of War: Romain Rolland and Music Crossing Borders”

December 2 – 3:00pm to 4:20pm, Classics 312, Joel Rhone, Ph.D Student in English, University of Chicago