The Poetry & Poetics Workshop is pleased to announce its Fall 2017 calendar. Unless otherwise noted, the workshop meets on Mondays from 5:00 – 6:30 pm in Harper 104, unless otherwise noted.
Monday, October 9: Gillian White, Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: “The Poetics of Contingency Planning.” (cosponsored with the 20th/21st Century Workshop.)
Respondent: Rosanna Warren, Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Professor, Committee on Social Thought
Monday, October 30: Jose-Luis Moctezuma, PhD. Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago: “‘The Exile Mechanism’: Mina Loy, Mestizaje, and Automatism.”
Respondent: Rachel Kyne, PhD. Candidate, Department of English
Monday, November 6th, 4:30 – 6:00 pm, in Harper Memorial 130: Cody Jones, PhD. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago: “Fungi from a Providence Brownstone: Lovecraft’s Unhuman Theopoetics.”
Respondent: Michael Rutherglen, PhD. Student, Committee on Social Thought
Monday, November 27th: Lauren Schachter, PhD. Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago: “‘There walks a Spirit o’er the peopled earth’: Barbauld’s Figures for Style and the Romantic Preposition.”
Respondent: Katie Nolan, PhD. Student, Department of English