AUGUST 2015

Cavallaro, Alexandra
THE CURRICULUM OF COMING OUT: QUEER PEDAGOGIES, LITERACIES, AND RHETORIC IN LGBTQ LIVES
Chair: Mortensen, Hawisher, Vieira, Rodriguez

Lagman, Eileen
LITERACY REMIANS: LEARNING AND LOSS IN THE BRAIN DRAIN OF FILIPINO MIGRANT LABAR
Chair: Prendergast, Vieira, Manalansan, Arends-Keunning

Marks-Dudds, Kaitlin
RECRUITING COMPOSITION: EXAMINING THE SOCIAL RELATIONS IN PROMOTING TEXT CIRCULATION
Chair: Prior, Hawisher, Schaffner, Mortensen

Ruiz, Ariana
IN TRANSIT: TRAVEL AND MOBILITY IN LATINA ART AND LITERATURE
Chair: Rodriguez, Parker, Koshy, Nguyen

Sach, Amy
OF HIS BREAST NOBLE POETS SHALL EAT; OF HIS BLOOD SHALL MEN BE DRUNK: NATIONALSIM, LITERATURE, AND ARTHURIAN ‘THINGS’ IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BRITAIN
Chair: Barrett, C. Wright, L. Newcomb, Galloway

Stone, Jonathan
LISTENING TO THE LOMAX ARCHIVE: THE SONIC RHETORICS OF AMERICAN VERNACULAR MUSIC IN THE 1930S
Chair: Mortensen; Co-Chair: Schaffner, O’Gorman, Finnegan

Wood, Elaine
MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND MULTI-FACE-TED CHARACTERS: WOOLF, YEATS, JOYCE, BECKETT, AND THEIR LITERARY FICTIONS
Chair: Mahaffey, Hansen, Cole, Richard

DECEMBER 2015

Barber, Claire
AESTHETICS, POETICS, AND COGNITION: A NEW MINOR LITERATURE BY AUTISTS AND MODERNISTS
Chair: Valente, Mahaffey, Gaedtke, Frost

Hubert, Ann
PERFORMING PIETY: PREACHERS AND PLAYERS IN EAST ANGLIA, 1400-1520
Chair: Barrett, Perry, Symes, C. Wright

Tong, Xiao Di
ANGLOPHONE CHINESE MODERNITY, 1860-1910
Chair: Xu, Espiritu, Spires, Warrior

MAY 2016

Ernstmeyer, Phillip
NIGHT-GLORY: CUT-UP LITERATURE, ANARCHISM, AND THE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT
Chair: Nelson, Rothberg, Parker, Brunner

Ha, In Hye
THE FACE OF THINGS: ENTANGLED BODIES AND THE POSTHUMANIST IMAGINATION IN LONG 18^THCENTURY BRITIAN
Chair: Pollock, Markley, Rabin, Blackwell

Kang, Yu-Kyung
ENGLISH-ONLY WHEN NECESSARY: LITERACY PRACTICES OF KOREAN UNDERGRADUATES AT A ‘GLOBAL’ UNIVERISTY
Chair: Prior, Mortensen, Hawisher, Abelmann

Thomas, Crystal
INVISIBLE MEN: SPACE, RACE, AND HOUSING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chair: Koshy, Somerville, Freeburg, McCarthy

Vigiletti, Elyse
READING THE MIDDLE: US WOMEN NOVELISTS AND PRINT CULTURE, 1930-1960
Chair: Foote, Somerville, Bauer, Hutner, Underwood

Weng, Julie
IRISH MODERNISM AND THE MACHINE
Chair: Mahaffey, Hansen, Gaedtke, Conrad