Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While … Continue reading Book Talk: Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Williams →

All graduate students and faculty are encouraged to join us for Tania Islam's doctoral defense, "Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction," on Wednesday, 3/23 @ 11 AM via Zoom. Dissertation Committee: Miles Orvell, Daniel O'Hara (Emeritus), and James Salazar Abstract: My dissertation titled “Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction” … Continue reading Tania Islam’s Doctoral Defense: “Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction” →

The Graduate Forum will continue in the Spring with a Zoom event on Feb. 17, featuring two more of our advanced doctoral students and moderated by Ryan Omizo. Scott Thompson: “The Social Ecology of Character: Reading Popular Psychology and Determinism in the Victorian Sensation Novel” Micah Savaglio: “Teaching Disability and Access: Unflattening Multimodal Composition” See … Continue reading Graduate Forum →