Past Events | Department of English

The Invention of Johannesburg

October 22, 2009

The Time of the Unconscious

February 8, 2008

October 22, 2007

The Casual Passer-By I Met at 3.01 pm, Philadelphia, April 9, 2007

October 11, 2007

Evasions of Power

March 30, 2007

ResVic: Kate Davies (University of York, UK), "Revolutionary Correspondence: Women's Letters, 1760-1800."

April 27, 2006

ResVic: Discussion: Horace, Satire II and Epistle II; Alexander Pope, Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated, Satire II.1 (1733), Epistle II.2 (1737), Epistle III.1 (1737).

April 5, 2006

ResVic: Arnold Markley (Penn State), "The Many Faces of the Man of Feeling: the 18th-Century Hero and the 1790s Novel of Reform."

March 23, 2006

ResVic: Jared Richman (UPenn), "Blake's Milton 'Re-membered, Graved and Press'd'."

February 9, 2006

ResVic: Susan Greenfield (Fordham University), "The Absent-Minded Heroine: Or, Elizabeth Bennet has a Thought."

February 2, 2006

ResVic: Jennifer Snead (UPenn), WIP: "Epic for an Information Age?: Pope's Dunciad of 1743 and the Theater Licensing Act."

December 1, 2005

ResVic: Beth Fawkes Tobin (Arizona State University)

November 15, 2005

ResVic: Ronald Paulson (Johns Hopkins University), "Fielding, Hogarth, and Cruelty" [English Department Lecture Series].

November 10, 2005

ResVic: Dahlia Porter (UPenn), WIP: "Method, Form and Format in Lyrical Ballads."

October 27, 2005

Promised Cities

October 8, 2005

ResVic: Brett Wilson (College of William and Mary), WIP: "Maudlin Whigs: On Women Who Cry (and Worse) at Cato."

May 19, 2005

ResVic: Helen Thompson (Northwestern University), "Ingenuous Subjection: Eighteenth-Century Women's Political Difference."

March 17, 2005

ResVic: Bill Galperin (Rutgers University), WIP

February 17, 2005

ResVic: A dramatic reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizzaro (1799).

February 2, 2005

ResVic: Paul Youngquist (Penn State University), "The Afro Futurism of DJ Vassa"

January 11, 2005

ResVic: Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate University), "Terrorism and the Humanities" [English Deaprtment Lecture Series event]; workshop on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

November 11, 2004

ResVic: John Richetti (UPenn), Discussion of Daniel Defoe's poetry.

October 28, 2004

ResVic: Matthew Rubery (Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow, UPenn), WIP: "Why Victorian Heroines Read the Shipping News."

September 30, 2004

ResVic: Atlantic Studies Seminar: Linda Colley (Princeton, History), "Moving Beyond the Atlantic: Reconstructing 18th century global lives."

April 20, 2004

ResVic: Juliet Shields (Ohio State University), WIP: "Scotland's to be a bryde."

April 6, 2004