August 2019
Forbes, Melissa K.
ARCHITECTURE AND THE RECORD: NEGOTIATING FEMINISM IN THE JEZEBEL COMMENTS
Chair: Mortensen; Hawisher, Rose Russell, DeVoss
Lumbley, Coral Anne
CONTESTED IDENTITIES IN DISCOURSES OF COLONIALISM AND CIVIL WAR: RACE, GENDER, AND THE HUMAN/ANIMAL IN TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES
Chair: Camargo; Trilling, Barrett, Smith
Martinez, Michelle Marie
UNDERGROUND LITERATURE: RESHAPING GENDER AND NATION IN BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION, 1871-1935
Chair: Mahaffey; Courtemanche, Gaedtke, Hansen
Norcross, Katherine Rose
THE FUNCTIONS OF EMPATHY IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Chair: Wright; Trilling, Camargo, Jorgensen
Park, Chae Yoon
COMPETING TO SUCCEED: MONARCHY AND SUCCESSION IN ENGLISH HISTORY PLAYS AND TRACTS, 1559-1607
Chair: Neely; Gray, Newcomb, Perry
Shetina, Michael Douglas
ARE THEY FAMILY?: QUEER PARENTS AND QUEER PASTS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE
Chair: Somerville; Nadeau, Turnock, Rodriguez
Truran, Wendy J.
THE PHANTOM OF JOY: EMOTION, AFFECT, AND THE PROBLEM OF PERSISTENCE IN MODERNIST LITERATURE
Chair: Mahaffey; Frost, Gaedtke, Rodriguez
Weisweaver, Sara
SIMPLE BOOKS FOR DEVOUT READERS: RECOVERING A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MIDDLE ENGLISH GENRE
Chair: Camargo; Wright, Barrett, Symes
December 2019
Dickison, Carrie
CURATING THE OBJECT: ART COLLECTION AND AESTHETICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
Chair: Saville; Goodlad, Courtemanche, Nazar
Paterson, Alexandra
GEOLOGICAL BODIES: FORM AND PROCESS IN ROMANTIC POETRY AND GEOLOGY
Chair: Underwood; Markley, Nazar, Wood
Ramais, Thierry
THE OTHER CROSS-CHANNEL NEIGHBOR: IMAGINING AND APPROPRIATING BELGIUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Chair: Saville; Goodlad, Courtemanche, Proulx
Sellers Jr., Edward Jordan
CONSEQUENTIAL GROUND: MEMORIALS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS IN ROMANTIC CULTURE 1793-1877
Chair: Underwood; Nazar, Wood, Hay
May 2020
Groundwater, Evin Scott
THE DIVERGENT ARCHIVE AND ANDROCENTRIC COUNTERPUBLICS: PUBLIC RHETORICS, MEMORY, AND ARCHIVES
Chair: Ritter; Mortensen, Gallagher, Enoch
Kelvie, Annie K
REARTICULATING RELIGIOUS RHETORIC: LITERATE ACTIVITY AND SEMIOTIC REMEDIATION IN A PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Chair: Prior; Ritter, Rose Russell, Juzwik
Sklaney, Jr., Lawrence J.
THE CASE OF THE INDIAN DETECTIVE: NATIVE AMERICAN MYSTERY NOVELS
Chair: Parker; Byrd, Hunt III, Tahmahkera