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Revisionary Humanities And The Sufferings Of History: Panel Discussion & Colloquium Celebrating Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence

CHAT (Center for the Humanities @ Temple) Gladfelter Hall, 10th Floor, Temple University, PA, United States

A Panel Discussion and Colloquium To Celebrate The Fortieth Anniversary Of Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973) Which First Shows How Imaginative Revisionism (Re-) Shapes The Creative Norm of Humanity The Event Will Be Attended By A Special Guest, Henry Carrigan (Assistant Director and Senior Acquisitions Editor of Northwestern University Press) And The Festivities … Continue reading Revisionary Humanities And The Sufferings Of History: Panel Discussion & Colloquium Celebrating Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence →

Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group

Anderson 1006 1114 Pollett Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The 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 →

Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week

Anderson 1006 Temple University, Philadelphia

The 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 Zoom

992441The 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 Zoom

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 →