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Our PhD program was inaugurated in 2006 with a\u00a0Speaker Series. Since then, we have welcomed internationally recognized scholars in the fields of literary and cultural studies to speak at this annual event, which has become a cornerstone of the doctoral program.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sally Chivers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PhD Speaker Series Fall 2025
<\/strong>Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4-5:30 p.m. in DT 181<\/strong>1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sally Chivers<\/strong> is Full Professor of Gender & Social Justice at Trent University, where she is a Founding Executive Member and Past Director of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society. An award-winning interdisciplinary researcher best known for her path-building book, The Silvering Screen<\/em>, Dr. Chivers has published extensively on the social and cultural politics of health, aging, and disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLIC LECTURE:<\/strong> \u201cMaking the stories we tell about aging matter\u201d<\/strong>
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4-5:30 p.m. in DT 181<\/strong>1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear of getting old pervades cultural representations of older adults, even when scripts are eerily cheery. Domestic fiction with prominent older characters often hinges on fears about where an older character will live once living at \u201chome\u201d becomes unreasonably difficult. Cinema that features older characters presents exuberant active aging that tamps down terror about decline while also proliferating stories about the horrors of dementia. Public narratives about death in later life imply there is a right and wrong time to die, nudging audience members towards a belief that longevity is within their control. These are \u201cjust stories,\u201d but they are stories that infiltrate social media, advertising, journalism, podcasts, public conversations, private conversations, and policy. With examples from my scholarly podcast Wrinkle Radio, the talk will focus on how skills gained through literary study have a role to play in interdisciplinary studies that seek to shift ageist policies and practice steeped in fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone is welcome. No registration required. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PhD SPEAKER SERIES WORKSHOP 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10-11:30 a.m. in DT 1812<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kimberly Quiogue Andrews (she\/they) is a Filipinx-American poet and literary critic and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of BETWEEN<\/em> (2018, Finishing Line Press), winner of the New Women\u2019s Voices award, and A Brief History of Fruit<\/em> (2020, University of Akron Press), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry. Her scholarly monograph, The Academic Avant-Garde<\/em>, is out now with Johns Hopkins University Press. Her critical work has won the Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History<\/em> and a development grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Andrews received her BA in creative writing from The Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in poetry from Penn State University, and a PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty and graduate students in FASS are warmly invited to join Dr. Andrews for a workshop \u201cOn \u2018Interventions\u2019: Positioning Your Research.\u201d Please register in advance (link below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this seminar discussion, Dr. Andrews will lead us through the structure and argumentation of the introduction and first chapter of her recent monograph, The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University<\/em>, a recent finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Through discussion of how Andrews’s work takes stock of its field and positions itself accordingly, students will come away with a sense of how to think about their own dissertations as book projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register here<\/a> for the workshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PUBLIC LECTURE: “Experimental Poetry and the Aesthetics of Criticism”
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 4-6 p.m. in DT 2017

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What do we mean when we talk about “academic poetry” today? Drawing from arguments developed in The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University <\/em>(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Dr. Andrews will provide a surprising answer to that question, one that can help us see the links between the ongoing “crisis” of the humanities, the political economy of art-making, the history of educational reform, and the form of reading and writing that goes by the name of literary criticism. Poetry’s tendency toward compression and emotional intensity might seem diametrically opposed to criticism’s elongation and relative detachment. But when poetry begins to question its own form, the result is a sprawling subgenre that can help critics recognize and recommit to the formal qualities of their own thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Austin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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David Austin<\/strong> is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution<\/em> (2018) and Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal<\/em> (2013, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize). He is editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018) <\/em>and You Don\u2019t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James<\/em> (2009). <\/em>He has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s Ideas<\/em> on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon. A former youth worker and community organizer, he currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and is a Lecturer in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD SPEAKER SERIES WORKSHOP 2024: \u201cSociology and Prophecy as Poetry: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Phenomenology of Violence\u201d
Monday, January 29, 2024, 10 – 11:30 a.m. in DT 1812<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Faculty and graduate students in English are warmly invited to join David Austin for a workshop on Linton Kwesi Johnson. This workshop will be of interest to those working on twentieth-century literature and culture, twentieth-century poetry and performance, and Black Studies.Drawing on his poems, this workshop will explore Linton Kwesi Johnson’s poetry and prose as part of a tradition of dread poetry as prophecy (revelation). Invoking Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire and Frantz Fanon, we will discuss Johnson’s poems “Dread Beat an’ Blood,” “Five Nights of Bleeding,” and “Doun de Road,” and his poetic essay “Jamaican Rebel Music” as part of his phenomenology of violence. For a copy for the readings and confirming your attendance, please contact Prof. Jody Mason, by January 22, 2024, at jody.mason@carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLIC LECTURE: \u201cC.L.R. James: Philosopher of the Dispossessed\u201d
\nMonday, January 29, 2024, 4 – 6 p.m. in DT 2017
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C.L.R. James was one of the great minds of the 20th century. James was a true polymath who made significant contributions in the areas of politics, philosophy, sports and aesthetics, history, literature, literary criticism, and Marxist theory. Ultimately, James was a socialist who fought and thought to change the world. The lecture will explore James’s life and ideas and situate him within his formative years in the Caribbean. Light refreshments will follow the lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claire Battershill<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Claire Battershill<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English and a short fiction writer. Her research focuses on 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> century book history, digital archives, and experimental literature. She’s the author of Circus <\/em>(McClelland & Stewart, 2014); Modernist Lives: Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press <\/em>(Bloomsbury 2018); and Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions 1920-2020 <\/em>(Cambridge 2022), as well as several articles and co-authored and collaborative publications. She’s also a co-director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) a digital archive of 20th century publishing history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOK ARTS LAB WORKSHOP: “Accordion Play”
Thursday, March 16, 2023
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the Book Arts Lab (MacOdrum 234E & 234F)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this book making and creative writing workshop, we will make simple accordion books and consider the types of narratives and poems best suited to this simple but evocative form of paper folding. The accordion’s musical associations, its elongated structure and its capacity for doubleness make it a particularly enjoyable form for experimentation. Through a series of writing prompts and accordion making exercises we’ll experiment with the aesthetic, material, and literary potential of this form. No previous experience in book arts or creative writing is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLIC LECTURE: \u201cConstellations and Marks on the Wall: Metaphorical Methodologies and the Gendered History of Letterpress Printing\u201d
Thursday, March 16, 4 – 6 p.m. in DT 1811<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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This talk will present historiographical methodologies particularly suited to the study of gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Through a series of examples of letterpress practitioners and literary letterpress artists, I consider how and why we might approach the study of women printers in a constellated rather than a comprehensive fashion. The figure of the constellation and indeed material metaphorical ways of thinking can help us with the extremely challenging process of example selection in a time period that is so full, so diverse, and so complex that drawing out particular examples almost inevitably feels either overdetermined by existing canons of print culture or feminist history or else completely random. Thinking about feminist historiography as a constellated practice, and seeking metaphors that allow for fragile archives, indeterminate narratives, and speculative approaches, allows patterns and suggestions of meaning to come into and fall out of view; it suggests that some kind of narrative is possible, but that comprehensiveness is not the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheryl Suzack<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SEMINAR WORKSHOP: “Historicizing Indigenous Dispossession”
\nTuesday, November 20, 2018
\n10 a.m. – Noon in DT 1216<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

*SPACES LIMITED* Graduate students and faculty please register via email to priya.kumar@carleton.ca, to receive pre-circulated readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLIC LECTURE: “Transnational Indigenous Feminisms”
\nTuesday, November 20, 2018
\n2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in DT 1811<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Cheryl Suzack<\/strong> is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Indigenous law and literature with a particular emphasis on writing by Indigenous women. In her book, Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (U of T Press 2017), she explores how Indigenous women’s writing from Canada and the United States addresses case law concerning tribal membership, intergenerational residential school experiences, and land claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her current project analyzes Justice Thurgood Marshall’s papers in the context of Indian civil rights claims from the 1960s. She is a co-editor (with Greig Henderson and Simon Stern) of \u201cThe Critical Work of Law and Literature,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly (Fall 2013) and a co-editor and contributor (with Shari Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman) to the award-winning collection, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (UBC 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Piper<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WORKSHOP: “Modeling Plot” (open to Graduate Students and Faculty)
\n<\/strong>Thursday, February 5, 2015<\/strong>
\n12:30-2:30 p.m., Gordon Wood Lounge (1811 Dunton Tower) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register in advance for the workshop: lana.keon@carleton.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this workshop we\u2019ll read recent pieces that discuss new computational methods for studying plot at large scale, including my new article, \u201cNovel Devotions: Conversional Reading, Computational Modeling, and the Modern Novel,\u201d which will be appearing this Spring in New Literary History<\/em>. What is the relationship between plot and language? What functions do different plot structures serve? How can we best measure these across large collections of texts? And what role does modeling play in the interpretive process? These are some of the questions I hope we can address during our workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLIC LECTURE: “Of Topics and Topoi: On Spatial Reading”
\n<\/strong>Friday, February 6, 2015<\/strong>
\n1:30-3:30 p.m., Gordon Wood Lounge (1811 Dunton Tower)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all of the recent work that uses topic models to study large amounts of texts, no one has as yet stopped to ask the question, \u201cWhat is a topic?\u201d Ranging from classical rhetoric to computational models, this talk will explore the nature of topics and the way they are currently being understood and deployed within the field of cultural and literary analytics. My goal is to better understand the nature of computational topics and the types of conceptual entities for which they stand, and more importantly, the way they represent open, generative language fields rather than closed conceptual units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Piper<\/strong> is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. His work explores the application of computational approaches to the study of literature and culture with a particular emphasis on network theory. He directs the digital humanities laboratory, .txtLAB @ McGill, and is the lead investigator on two multinational research projects, the Digging into Data <\/em>project,<\/em> \u201cGlobal Currents: Cultures of Literary Networks, 1050-1900,\u201d and the SSHRC partnership grant, \u201cNovelTM<\/sup>: Text Mining the Novel,\u201d which brings together 21 partners across North America. He is the author most recently of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times<\/em> (Chicago 2012) as well as Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age<\/em> (Chicago 2009), which was awarded the MLA Prize for a First Book and honourable mention for the Harry Levin Prize for the American Comparative Literature Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jodi Dean<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Enclosing the Subject” (from current project, Crowds and Party<\/em>)
\n<\/strong>November 21, 2014
\n<\/strong>Workshop, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Gordon Wood Lounge (1811 Dunton Tower) <\/strong>(open to graduate students only, please register in advance: lana.keon@carleton.ca)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper inverts Althusser’s claim that the individual is interpellated as a subject. Arguing that the subject is interpellated as an individual, it engages Freud’s discussion of group psychology to demonstrate the enclosure of the collective subject of politics in the individual form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Crowds and Publics”<\/strong>
\nPublic Lecture, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
\n2017 Dunton Tower <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2011, the most important social actor worldwide has been the crowd. The most pressing political challenge has been the struggle over, around, and through the crowd: of what politics is the crowd the subject? Drawing from early crowd theory and its inversion in contemporary business porn as the “wisdom of crowds,” this talk considers the affective and disruptive dimension of crowds. Crowds force a relation to politics different from that theorized around ideas of publicity and publics, a relation that draws out the necessity of political division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Jodi Dean is one of the most exciting and incisive diagnosticians of our contemporary moment. Spanning the theoretical terrain of feminism, media theory, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, her work offers a profound and far-reaching challenge to the complacencies of the neoliberal imagination. She is the author of The Communist Horizon<\/em> (2012), Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of the Drive<\/em> (2010), Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics<\/em> (2009), \u017di\u017eek\u2019s Politics<\/em> (2006), Publicity\u2019s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy<\/em> (2002), Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace<\/em> (1998), and Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism After Identity Politics<\/em> (1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Dean’s Blog<\/a>      counterpunch Interview <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012-13<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Priscilla Wald (Duke University), \u201cHow Do You Know You\u2019re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Galey (University of Toronto), \u201cThe Dark Basement of the Digital Humanities: Shakespeare and the Prehistory of the New Media Prototype\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009-10<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Heather Murray (University of Toronto), \u201cThe CANLIT Project, and the Question of a National Reader\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008-2009<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mary Poovey (New York University), \u201cDiscriminating Reading\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania), \u201cThe Materiality of Writing\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ato Quayson (University of Toronto), \u201cPostcolonial and Diaspora Studies: Spaces, Dialogues, Controversies\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007-08<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota), \u201cIntellectual Labor\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seth Lerer (Stanford University), \u201cLyric Times: Voice and Text in Medieval Literature\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006-07<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Christine Bold (University of Guelph), \u201cCowboys and Publishers: The Emergence of Transatlantic Popular Print Culture\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Hutcheon (University of Toronto), \u201cIn Defense of Literary Adaptation as Literary Production\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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