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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Professor Sarah Casteel delivered two invited lectures this spring. The first, the Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, was presented at UCLA in early May. The talk was entitled "Global Itineraries of Holocaust Memory: The Jewish Caribbean and Nazi Persecution in Literature and Art.” In this talk, Prof. Casteel examined how,... More
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Prof. Sara Jamieson recently presented research at Take Back Aging: Power, Critique, Imagination, an international conference of the North American and European Networks in Aging Studies hosted by the Trent Centre for Aging and Society in Peterborough, May 28-31, 2019. The conference brought together scholars from multiple disciplines to share... More
Thursday, May 2, 2019
How are we to make the case for the value of different kinds of knowledge at a time when both the humanities and universities in general face unprecedented pressures? Prof. Paul Keen is organizing a two-day workshop in early June that seeks to address this question. Taking its cue from Stefan Collini’s warning about... More
Friday, March 29, 2019
Along with William E. Engel (University of the South: Sewanee) and Rory Loughnane (University of Kent, UK), Professor Grant Williams is organizing a special interdisciplinary symposium “Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England” at the Warburg Institute, University of London on Friday, 17 May 2019. In the early modern period, the faithful... More
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Together with Prof. Jennifer Blair, Prof. Jody Mason is organizing the 2019 edition of the annual Canadian Literature Symposium at the University of Ottawa. Devoted to the topic of “Institutional Work,” the conference will take place from May 3-5th, 2019. Featured speakers include Lily Cho (York University), Keavy Martin (University of... More
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Prof. Barbara Leckie is the author of the recently published Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Pennsylvania Press). In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political... More
Friday, December 14, 2018
Prof. Julie Murray recently co-edited an issue of European Romantic Review with Lauren Gillingham (Ottawa U) that highlighted key papers presented at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Professors Murray and Gillingham organized NASSR 2017 on the topic of "Romantic Life,” which drew over 300... More
Friday, November 30, 2018
Prof. Susan Birkwood recently gave a paper at the Western Humanities Alliance conference in Calgary, Alberta. Hosted at the new Calgary Centre Library, the conference explored the theme of “Spectral Cities.” Conference organizers asked presenters to consider how fictional or filmic versions of cities have shaped the perception of real ones;... More
Friday, August 24, 2018
Doctoral students in the department’s Production of Literature program are turning out exciting research. David Thomas has an essay in the newly published Materialism and the Critique of Energy, a collection that brings together cultural, economic, and historical approaches to an engagement between Marxist critiques of capital and questions of... More
Friday, August 17, 2018
Prof. Jamieson has an essay entitled “Ethics and Infant Feeding in Alice Munro’s Stories” in the newly published collection Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro (eds. Amelia DeFalco and Lorraine York, Palgrave). Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice... More
Friday, August 10, 2018
Prof. Stuart Murray recently published Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines (Routledge, 2018), co-edited with Dave Holmes and Thomas Foth. Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyzes three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and... More
Friday, August 3, 2018
David Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in the Production of Literature program, will deliver a paper at the end of August at the Petrocultures conference at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). David’s paper, “Social Lab, Social Struggle: Politicizing the Social Innovation Paradigm,” will be featured on a panel devoted to “Scalar Predicaments in... More
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