Author: etpowell
Protected: Richard Strier, “A Lover’s Journal: Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric”
Protected: Richard Strier, “A Field Guide to Robert Hass”
Winter Schedule, 2016
Poetry and Poetics Workshop, Winter Schedule
Monday, January 11:
Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
“A Field Guide to Robert Hass”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Monday, January 25:
Seth Perlow, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
“Making Strangers with Friends: Frank O’Hara and the Telephone.”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Co-sponsored with the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Monday, February 15:
David Womble, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
“Afterlives of the Senses: Swinburne, Hylo-Idealism, and the Physiology of Victorian Death”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Co-sponsored with the 18th/19th Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop
Monday, February 22:
Brian McGrath, Associate Professor, Clemson University
“Understating Poetry”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Monday, March 7:
Rachel Kyne, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
“T. S. Eliot’s Eternities, or, How to Avoid a Revolution”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Protected: Patrick Morrissey: Stein’s Second Childhood, November 23
Autumn 2015 Schedule
Monday, October 5: Opening Discussion on Lyric: Chapter 2, “Lyric as Genre,” of Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric; poems by Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Monday, October 19: Eric Powell, English Department, University of Chicago
“Poetry | Machines”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Monday, November 9: Srikanth Reddy, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
“‘Like does not like like that’s obnoxious’: On Simile and Resemblance”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Monday, November 23: Patrick Morrissey, English Department, University of Chicago
“Naive Modernism: Gertrude Stein’s Second Childhood”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM
Monday, December 7: Berthold Hoeckner, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, University of Chicago
“Poetry as Distant Philosophy”
Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM