Winter 2024 schedule
January 22: Mike Mason, PhD Candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin “Elements of Night: Lines of Composition in C.D. Wright’s Critical Regionality”
Respondent: Jennie Berner, Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
February 5: Josh Stadtner, PhD Student in English at the University of Chicago
“The Planetary Dispersion of Micro-Material”
Respondent: Benjamin Morgan, Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Virtual Event, 5:00-6:30 PM
February 15: Cecily Chen, PhD Student in English at the University of Chicago
“Parenthetical Subjects: The Aesthetics of Opacity in Experimental Asian-American Literature”
Respondent: Mee-ju Ro, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
February 26: Clara Nizard, PhD Candidate in English at the University of Chicago “Forms of Entropy: Dance and the Radioactive Imagination”
Respondent: Andrei Pop, Professor of Social Thought, Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
March 4: Tien-Tien Jong Zhang, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago
“Post-human, Post-Asian: the Body Worlds of After Yang“
Respondent Dan Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Virtual Session, 5:00-6:30 PM
Workshop materials will be posted, password-protected, one week before the workshop meets. The password will be circulated on our listserv. To receive our emails, please contact the workshop coordinators: Rhya Marlene Moffitt (rhya@uchicago.edu) and Cassandra Lerer (crblerer@uchicago.edu).
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. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the workshop coordinators.
Image: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII (1923).