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

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)