Spring 2024
April 11th | Lou Gargouri
PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
“Unlocking and Overcoming Family History through Embodied Testimonies in Gardiennes by Fanny Cabon”
May 2nd | Andrew Schlager
PhD Candidate, Department of English, Princeton University
“Jean Toomer’s Aisles: Pedagogy and Performance”
Spring 2023
April 17th | Jimmy White
PhD Student, Department of Classics and Committee on Social Thought
“‘E-mail My Heart:’ Subject Lessons and the Epistolary Mode”
April 25th | Tina Post
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Committee of Theater and Peformance Studies
Conversation on recent monograph Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, with Sianne Ngai at the Seminary Co-op
May 15th | Glenn Most
Visiting Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Classics
“The Horrific Body in Sophocles”
May 22nd | Lindsay Reckson
Associate Professor of English, Haverford College
“Viral Gestures, or How To Use Your Body at the End of the World”
May 29th | Taimur Reza
PhD Candidate, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
“The Untouchable Precinct: Psycho-affective Survival of the Bengali Muslims at the Turn of the Century”
Winter 2023
February 15th | Gasira Timir
PhD Student, Department of English
“‘E-mail My Heart:’ Subject Lessons and the Epistolary Mode”
February 20th | Yunning Zhang
PhD Student, Department of Comparative Literature
“The Passion According to La China Poblana: Martyrdom and Distress in Catarina de San Juan’s Vida (1689-1692) by Alonso Ramos”
February 27th | Rivky Mondal
PhD Candidate, Department of English
“Living with Difference in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Raven Leilani’s Luster”
February 27th | Agatha Slupek
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Social Sciences Division
“The Disavowed Gender of Rawlsian Envy”
Autumn 2022
November 7th | Nia Pappas
MAPH Candidate, Division of the Humanities
“The Divided Line and Divided Soul: Understanding Spirit as Truth”
November 21st | Qiuchen Wu
MFA Candidate, Department of Visual Arts
Girl’s Geist (2019)