AUGUST 2013

Fonzo, Kimberly
LATE MEDIEVAL AUTHORSHIP AND THE PROPHETIC TRADITION
Chair: Robert Barrett; Martin Camargo, Karen Fresco, Lynn Staley

Gilmore, Shawn
THE INVENTION OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: UNDERGROUND COMIX AND CORPORATE AESTHETICS
Chair: Michael Rothberg; Cary Nelson, James Hansen, Stephanie Foote

Heath, Erin
IN PLANE SIGHT: THEORIES OF FILM SPECTATORSHIP AND ANIMATION
Chair: Ramona Curry; J.B. Capino, Lilya Kaganovsky, Richard Neupert

Herb, Amy
DISCIPLINARY DISCOURSE: EXPLICATING RHETORICAL AND OCIOLINGUISTIC NETWORKS IN THE ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY
Chair: Peter Leslie Mortensen; Gail E. Hawisher, Janet Dixon Keller, Kathryn LaBarre

Hoiem, Elizabeth
OBJECT LESSONS: TECHNOLOGIES OF EDUCATION IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1762-1850
Chair: Ted Underwood; Robert Marley, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Gillen Wood, Justine Murison

Quintana Wulf, Isabel
THE UNDERSIDE OF BORDERS: READING CHICAN@ AND NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Chair: Richard Rodriguez; Siobhan Somerville, Robert Dale Parker, Jodi Byrd, Nancy Castro

Rouillon, Vanessa
RECONFIGURING RACIAL UPLIFT: CHURCH-SPONSORED AFRICAN AMERICAN RHETORICAL WORK IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chair: Catherine Prendergast, Co-Chair: Peter Mortensen; Alice Deck, Gesa Kirsch Bently

Vredemburg, Jason
MOTERCARS AND MAGIC HIGHWAYS: THE AUTOMOBILE AND COMMUNICATION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM 
Chair: Gordon Hutner; Dale Bauer, Tim Newcomb, Jose B. Capino

Webber, Martha
CRAFTING CITIZENS: MATERIAL RHETORIC, CUTLURAL INTERMEDIARIES, AND THE AMAZWI ABESIFAZANE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL QUILT PROJECT 
Chair: Peter Leslie Mortensen; Catherine Prendergast, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Spencer Schaffner

MAY 2014

Black, Michael
TRANSPARENT CULTURE IMAGINED USERS AND THE POLITICS OF SOFTWARE DESIGN (1975-2012)
Chair: Robert Markley; William Underwood, Spencer Schaffner, Melissa Littlefield, John T. Newcomb

Engstrom, Arja Karoliina
A NOVEL WAY TO LEARN: BLACK EDUCATIONAL FICTION FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Chair: Dale Bauer, Co-Chair: Stephanie Foote; Nancy Castro, Peter Mortensen

Garber, Cecily
FICTION-CRITICISM IN INTERWAR ENGLAND: JUDGMENT, GENDER, AND THE PLURALIST PUBLIC SPHERE 
Chair: Vicki Mahaffey; Hina Nazar, James Hansen, Andrew Gaedtke

Lown-Hecht, Tania
ADRIFT AT HOME: NATIONAL BELONGING AND NARRATIVE FORM IN THE ROOMS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION 
Chair: Vicki Mahaffey, Co-Chair: Matt Hart; Andrew Gaedtke, Antoinette Burton

Mihut, Ligia
STORIES FROM OUR PEOPLE’: IMMIGRANTS, BROKERS, AND LITERACY AS AFFINITY 
Chair: Catherine Prendergast; Anne Haas Dyson, Kate Vieira, Keith Hitchins

Om, Donghee
THE BLACK, BRITISH ATLANTIC: BLACKNESS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE 
Chair: Lauren Goodlad, Co-Chair: Julia Saville; Robert Dale Parker, Leon Chai