English Department Colloquium - Fall 2009

All events at 3:00-4:00 pm

Friday, Oct. 30 - Alan Nadel, William T. Bryan Professor of English: “ ‘Wand me!’ Assuming the Subject Position of the Compliant Body in the Age of Terror,” Room 211 Student Center Addition

Friday, Nov. 13 - Jesslyn Collins-Frohlich, graduate student Dept. of English: “Negotiating Others: American Identity in Unca Eliza Winkfield’s The Female American,” Room 211 Student Center Addition

Friday, Nov. 20 - Christopher Reese, graduate student Dept. of English: “‘Laughing in Our Turn’: Humour as Moral Judgment in Pride and Prejudice,” Room 359 Student Center

Friday, Dec. 4 - Michael Trask, Associate Professor of English: “Elizabeth Bishop in the Valley of the Dolls: Or, Sex and the Single Lesbian,” Room 211 Student Center Addition

Friday, Dec. 11 - George Phillips, graduate student Dept. of English: “Narrative and Exhibition: Joseph Conrad, Imre Kiralfy, and London’s Fetishes,” Room 211 Student Center Addition

The talks (and refreshments) are free & open to the public and all are welcome.