Winter 2017 Calendar

Monday, January 9: Edgar Garcia, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar and Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of English at UChicago, “Toward a Poetics of Unnatural Signs” (cosponsored with the 20th/21st Century Workshop)

Thursday, January 26: Anahid Nersessian, Assistant Professor, Department of English at UCLA, “Wordsworth’s Obscurity” (cosponsored with the 18th/19th-Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop)

Friday, February 3: Josh Kotin, Assistant Professor, Department of English at Princeton University, “Poetry and/or Community”

Monday, February 20: Chalcey Wilding, PhD Candidate, “‘The last bleak news of the ballad:’ Gwendolyn Brooks Loiters, After Mamie Till-Mobley’s Baby”

Monday, March 6: Eric Powell, PhD Candidate, “How to Do Things with Poems: Shelley’s Queen Mab, the Radical Press, and the English Working Class” (cosponsored with the 18th/19th-Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop)