OCTOBER 2009
Fraiberg, Steven
ENGLISH, ISRAEL, AND GLOBALIZATION: A SOCIOHISTORIC STUDY ON LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL SHIFT
Chair: Paul Prior; and Gail Hawisher, Michele Koven, Ralph Cintron
Free, Melissa
"THAT INDEFINABLE SOMETHING BESIDES": SOUTHERN AFRICA, BRITISH IDENTITY, AND THE AUTHORIAL INFORMANT, 1883-1924
Chair: Joseph Valente; and Antoinette Burton, Peter Garrett, Jed Esty
Kolkovich, Elizabeth Zeman
WORK IN PROGRESS: GENDER AND POLITICS IN LATE ELIZABETHAN PROGRESS ENTERTAINMENTS
Chair: Carol Neely; and Catharine Gray, Zachary Lesser, Lori Newcomb
McWhorter, Ellen
UNSAYABLE SOMETHINGS: MODERN AMERICAN POETRY, LANGUAGE, AND THE LOGIC OF EXPERIENCE
Chair: Cary Nelson; and Siobhan Somerville, Julia Walker, James Hansen
DECEMBER 2009
Damsen, Silver
EROTIC LOVE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTO-CAPITALIST IDEOLOGY IN EARLY MODERN COMEDY
Chair: Carol Neely; and Michael Shapiro, Lori Newcomb, Zachary Lesser
Girard, Melissa
LINES OF FEELING: MODERNIST WOMEN'S POETRY AND THE LIMITS OF SENTIMENTALITY
Chair: Cary Nelson; and Stephanie Foote, Siobhan Somerville, Jed Esty
Reading, Amity
SOUL AND BODY: READING THE ANGLO-SAXON SELF THROUGH THE VERCELLI BOOK
Chair: Charles Wright; and Martin Camargo, Renee Trilling, Thomas Hall
Tombro, Melissa
PERFORMANCE STUDIES AND THE REINVENTION OF "I" IN COMPOSITION: MOVING MYSELF BEYOND A TEXTUAL MODEL
Chair: Debra Hawhee; and Spencer Schaffner, Julia Walker, Norman Denzin
MAY 2010
Craft, Pete
WARFARE, TRADE, AND "INDIANS" IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1652-1711
Chair: Robert Markley; and Carol Neely, Anthony Pollock, Andrea Stevens
Dunick, Lisa
SELLING OUT: THE AMERICAN LITERARY MARKET PLACE AND THE MODERNIST NOVEL
Chair: Stephanie Foote; John Marsh, Bob Parker, Michael Rothberg
Lynch, Suzanne
FROM EXILE TO TRANSCENDENCE: RACIAL MIXTURE AND THE JOURNEY OF REVISION IN THE WORKS OF LYDIA MARIA CHILD, HANNAH CRAFTS, KATE CHOPIN, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, AND JEAN TOOMER
Chair: Stephanie Foote, Alice Deck; and Cary Nelson, Siobhan Somerville
Moss, Andrew
THE CULTURAL CONSTITUTION OF THE POST-REPUBLIC: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICS AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY FORM
Chair: Trish Loughran; Leon Chai, Stephanie Foote, Joseph Valente
Olson, Christa
CONSTITUTIVE VISIONS: INDIGENEITY, VISUAL CULTURE, AND THE RHETORICS OF ECUADORIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
Chair: Debra Hawhee, Ralph Cintron; and Peter Mortensen, Cara Finnegan, Amalia
Pallares
Walls, Nicole
WHERE LANGUAGE IS MADE: LANGUAGE PLANNING AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND LANGUAGE WORK
Chair: Catherine Prendergast; and Peter Mortensen, Dennis Baron, Cameron McCarthy