Wednesday, April 27: Marie Satya McDonough

Please join the American Literatures and Cultures workshop for a presentation by Marie Satya McDonough for a presentation from her dissertation,

“The Uses of Exemplarity”

on Black feminist thought and literature.

The American Literatures and Cultures workshop meets alternating Wednesdays at 4:30 in Rosenwald 405.

Any person with a disability who feels they may need assistance should contact Megan Tusler at tusler [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

Wednesday, April 13: Professor Pamela Thurschwell

Please join the American Literatures and Cultures workshop for a presentation by Professor Pamela Thurschwell, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, for:

“‘As If’ Adolescence in the 1890s: Acting your Age in The Awkward Age”

a chapter from her forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Out of Time: The Temporality of Adolescence in the 20th Century.

The American Literatures and Cultures workshop meets alternating Wednesdays at 4:30 in Rosenwald 405.

Any person with a disability who feels they may need assistance should contact Megan Tusler at tusler [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

Spring Workshops

April 6: Amy Gentry, Department of English Language and Literature presents a chapter from her dissertation: “The Limits of Modernist Miniaturism: Marianne Moore, William Carlos Willliams, and Louis Zukofsky”

April 13: Dr. Pam Thurschwell, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Sussex, presents a chapter from her forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Out of Time: The Temporality of Adolescence in the 20th Century. The chapter is titled, “‘As If’ Adolescence in the 1890s: Acting your Age in The Awkward
Age”.

April 27: Marie Satya McDonough, Department of English Language and Literature presents a chapter from her dissertation: “The Uses of Exemplarity,” on Black feminist thought and literature.

May 18: In collaboration with the Medicine, Body, and Practice workshop, Averill Leslie presents “The Kinship of Kallikaks: Henry Goddard’s Ad Hoc Charting of a Pathogenic Family and its Foil” from her dissertation.