Autumn 2011 Schedule

Friday, September 30^th at 1pm in Rosenwald 405 – Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138. Lunch provided.

• Joint session with Poetry and Poetics Workshop and Renaissance Workshop. Co-sponsored by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW).
• Optional secondary reading: Edward A. Snow, “Loves of Comfort and Despair: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138,” ELH 47 (1980): 462-483.

October 20^th – James McCormick, PhD Candidate in the Committee on Social Thought and Germanic Studies, on “Mind, Body and Form in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities.” Reception to follow.

Tuesday, November 1^st – Monica Olaru, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, on “Will: A Literary Critique before the Introduction of Schopenhauer into France.” Reception to follow.

November 17^th – Joseph Ballan, PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Religions, on “Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald, and the Natural History of Religion.” Reception to follow.

December 1^st – Daniel Pratt, PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, on “Gombrowicz’s Gombrowicz: The Self among.” Reception to follow.