Pablo Picasso, Cat Eating a Bird, 1939
Winter 2025 schedule
January 23: Trevor Wells, MA Student in the Humanities, University of Chicago
“From Keats’s Hum to Nabokov’s Humbert: Enchantment as Literariness”
Respondent: Bradford Case, PhD Student in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Rosenwald 405, 5:00–6:30 PM
January 29: Natalie Cortez Klossner, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“Reading and Translating Flávio de Carvalho’s The Animal Origin of God (1967)”
Respondent: Belén Sánchez, PhD Student in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Rosenwald 405, 5:00–6:30 PM
February 12: Dan White, PhD Student in English, University of Illinois–Chicago
“Ghost in the Machine: Dialogic Intimacy, Temporal Fluidity, and First-Person Free-Indirect in Rachel Cusk’s Outline“
Respondent: Chris Gortmaker, Teaching Fellow in English, University of Chicago
Rosenwald 405, 5:00–6:30 PM
February 26: Cassandra Lerer, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
“Animal Fetishism in the Weird Fiction of Sarban”
Respondent: Heather Keenleyside, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Rosenwald 405, 5:00–6:30 PM
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Our meetings are open to the University of Chicago community and visitors who comply with University of Chicago vaccination requirements. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible for people with disabilities. Please direct any questions or concerns to the workshop coordinators, Bradford Case (bkcase@uchicago.edu) and Tyler Lutz (tyler.lutz@uchicago.edu).