Spring 2006
Schedule
Thursday, Jan. 12, 4:30 p.m.: Benjy Kahan, University of Pennsylvania
“The Anti-Auden Moment: The Sea and the Politics of Queer Citizenship”
Seminar co-sponsored with Modernism and Twentieth Century and Gender and Sexuality Reading Groups
Location: Kelly Writers House, Room 202
Thursday, Jan. 26, 5:00 p.m.: Jose Saldivar, University of California at Berkeley
Senior Americanist Job Talk
Location: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 5:00 p.m.: Thadious Davis, University of Pennsylvania
"Creolite Noir: Mutable Geography, Cultural Flows, and Body Maps"
Latitudes Seminar
Location: Kelly Writers House, Room 202
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 6:00 p.m.: Priscilla Wald, Duke University
"Imagined Immunities," from Contagion: Cultures, Carriers and the Epidemiology of Belonging (forthcoming, Duke UP)
American Literature Seminar
Location: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 112
Thursday, Feb. 23, 5:00 p.m.: Lisa Duggan, New York University
"Neoliberal Citizenship and Contemporary Marriage Politics"
English Department Lecture Series
Location: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
Wednesday, Mar. 1, 6:00 p.m.: Virginia Jackson, New York University
"On Not Hearing Walt Whitman (Or, How American Poetry Tells American Literary History)"
American Literature Seminar
Location: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 112
Tuesday, Mar. 21, 5:00 p.m.: David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
"'When they come here they feal So free:' Liberia and the Equivocal Freedom of Return"
American Literature Seminar
Location: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 222
Thursday, Apr. 6, 4:30 p.m.: Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Seminar co-sponsored with Latitudes and the Modernism and Twentieth Century Reading Groups
Location: TBA
