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Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group
Anderson 1006 1114 Pollett Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will meet at a new date and time this week to accommodate a wider audience that has expressed interest in. The group will continue to discuss Derrida this week, turning to his seminal essay "Différance." If you cannot make this time or would like to make suggestions about where the … Continue reading Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group
Graduate Student Research Symposium
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Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week
Anderson 1006 Temple University, PhiladelphiaThe Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will have its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday, September 23rd, from 11:00am - 12:00pm in Anderson 1006. The reading for the first meeting, Susan Buck-Morss' "Democracy: An Unfinished Project", has been distributed via the graduate student listserv. New and returning members are welcome to join the group for what … Continue reading Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week
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Digital Projects in the Humanities Workshop
THIS THURSDAY 2/1 10:30-11:30am PLACE: Women's Studies Lounge, Room 821 Anderson Hall Alex Wermer-Colan, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Temple University Digital Scholarship Center, will present an informal introduction to digital projects in the Humanities, designed especially for English graduate students. He'll talk about the shifting role of the digital humanities in universities, partly based on … Continue reading Digital Projects in the Humanities Workshop
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Talk – “Water, Drought, and Death: An Environmental Approach to American Fiction”
Anderson Hall 821 (Women's Studies Lounge)DATE: FEB. 14 TIME: 12:00 to 1:00 PM PLACE: 8th Floor Lounge, Anderson Lucas Sheaffer (doctoral student in English) will talk about his research in environmental criticism, specifically an examination of the Tennessee Valley Authority's far-reaching regional damming projects during the mid-20th century. The talk will open with a brief summary of the project's scope and central questions … Continue reading Talk – “Water, Drought, and Death: An Environmental Approach to American Fiction”
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Fall 2021 Graduate English Forum
Via Zoom992441The first Graduate English Forum will be held on November 18th via Zoom, featuring PhD candidates Tania Islam and Vanessa Loh, who will describe their intriguing work. Faculty response and Q&A will follow. All Graduate Students are expected to attend. Click here for more details.
Graduate Forum
Via ZoomThe 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
Tania Islam’s Doctoral Defense: “Things Left Unsaid: Historical Silences and Multiethnic Women’s Fiction”
Via ZoomAll 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”
Book Talk: Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Williams
Mazur 821Through 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