AUGUST 2016

McNamara, Thomas
DREAMS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: CHINESE UNDERGRADUATES AND INVESTMENT IN THE US WRITING CLASSROOM
Chair: Prendergast, Ritter, Koshy, Kwon

Sahn, Sarah
FANTASIES OF CITIZENSHIP: ADOLESCENCE AND TEMPORALITY IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Chair: Rodriguez, McDowell, Stockton, Foote

Tavares, Elizabeth
ACTS OF IMAGINATION: CURATING THE EARLY ELIZABETHAN REPORTORIES, 1582-1594
Chair: Perry; co-chair: L. Newcomb, Stevens, Barrett

DECEMBER 2016

Dettmar, Esther
REVISING IDENTIFICATION: FAIRY TALES THAT TRANSFORM TRADITION FROM WITHIN
Chair: Mahaffey, Rodriguez, Hansen, Johnson

Moore, John
MODERNISM’S LAUGHING BODIES: A TAXONOMY OF THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LAUGHTER
Chair: Mahaffey, Hansen, Gaedtke, Goodlad

Pincus, Alaina
JEWISH TOLERATION, ASSIMILATION, AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE BRITISH IMAGINATION, 1655-1755
Chair: Markley, L. Newcomb, Pollock, Rabin

MAY 2017

Ballard, Shawn
UTOPIAN CONNECTIVITY TO PARANOID COLLAPSE: COMPLEX NETWORKS AND GLOBAL SOCIAL ECOLOGIES IN 20TH-CENTURY FICTION
Chair: Mahaffey; Co-Chair: Underwood, Courtemanche, Gaedtke

Bascom, Benjamin
FEELING SINGULAR: MASCULINITY AND DESIRE IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1786–1822
Chair: Loughran, Foote, Murison, Somerville

Cash, Amanda
A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE: THE ROLE OF WRITING STUDIES IN ONLINE LEARNING AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Chair: Hawisher, Mortensen, Prior, Oakley

McLeer, Heather
MATTERS OF VERISIMILITUDE: TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL REALISMS IN IRELAND, 1880-1940
Chair: Mahaffey, Hansen, Gaedtke, Saville

Mercado, Jessica
DANGEROUS MEN: THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY IN ROMANTIC WOMEN’S FICTION
Chair: Wood, Markley, Nazar, Underwood

Rosell, Carla
DO FEET HAVE MOUTHS? SLANDER, METAPHOR, AND THE BODY POLITIC IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Chair: L. Newcomb, Perry, Gray, Stevens

Simon, Kaia
REWRITNG HMONG WOMANHOOD: LITERACY THAT MEDIATES BORDERS
Chair: Prendergast, Koshy, Pritchard, Duffy