Spring Quarter, 2017
Monday, March 27, 4:30-6, RO 432
Ingrid Becker, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
“The Emergence of Sociological Poetics”
Thursday, April 13, 12-1:30, Wieboldt 130
Bonnie Costello, Professor, Boston University
“Collecting Ourselves: ‘We’ in Wallace Stevens”
Monday, April 17, 4:30-6, RO 432
Dr. Fred Gertsen, Principal Investigator, Project MindPrint, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
“The Criterion: T. S. Eliot and his Cultural Network”
Monday, May 8, 4:30-6, RO 432
Caroline Heller, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
“Vernal Reading: Seasonal Circumstance in Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children”
Monday, May 22, 4:30-6, RO 432
Lucy Alford, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago
“The Angel’s Gaze: Attending to the Departed Object”
Monday, June 5, 4:30-6, RO 432
Christopher Nealon, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
“In the Dark with Brian Blanchfield” and “Value, or The Limits of the Literary”
Co-sponsored by the 20th and 21st Century Workshop