Friday, October 6, 2006 | Humanities Forum
Organized by the Modernist Studies Group and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Group at the University of Pennsylvania English Department
This one-day conversational event will bring leading scholars in the region who are working at the intersections of modernism, feminism, and sexuality studies to the University of Pennsylvania campus. There will be two roundtable sessions, one on methodological questions and one on more broadly institutional questions. Rather than present formal papers from their work in progress, participants will speak in more general and informal ways about how the study of modernism and modernity is being or could be most productively concerted around issues of gender and sexuality. Participants may also share observations about relevant trends or tendencies in the profession, the job market, or academic publishing, as well as personal reflections on their own career path and choices.
Participating scholars include Rita Barnard, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Robert Caserio, Tim Dean, Rita Felski, Jen Fleissner, Kathryn Kent, Heather Love, Janet Lyon, Doug Mao, and Rebecca Walkowitz.
Sponsored by the Penn English Department, the Modernist Studies Group, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Group, the Women’s Studies Program, and the LGBT Center