AUGUST 2017

Flowers, Katherine
LOCAL LANGUAGE POLICY: SHIFITNG SCALES IN THE ENGLISH-ONLY MOVEMENT
Chair: Prior, Baron, Schaffner, Koven

Lozano, Jennifer
SACRED SITES: THE SOCIAL-SPIRITUAL AND FEMINIST PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY LATINA/O NARRATIVE
Chair: Rodriguez, Somerville, Koshy, Cacho

Pulsifer, Rebecah
SIGNIFYING NOTHING: INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 1919-1969
Chair: Gaedtke, Mahaffey, Frost, Linett

Saunders, Pamela
NAVIGATING ‘NORMAL’: THE WRITING LIVES OF STUDENTS ON THE SPECTRUM
Chair: Prendergast, Finnegan, Russell, Yergeau

Shelledy, Maggie
AGAINST SOCIAL DEATH: RHETORICAL RESLIENCE AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PRISON
Chair: Schaffner, Prior, Ginsburg, Vieira

Verderame, Michael
SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND SOUL-MAKING: THE ROMANTIC ENCOUNTER WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
Chair: Wood, Underwood, Markley, Saville

DECEMBER 2017

Penn, Darren
METACOGNITIVE POETICS: MODERNIST REFLECTIONS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THINKING
Chair: Nelson, T. Newcomb, Mahaffey, Blake

MAY 2018

Jones, Brandon
UNCOMMON WORK: UTOPIA, LABOR, AND ENVIRONMENT IN LATE 20^THCENTURY AMERICAN FICTION
Chair: Littlefield, Alaimo, Foote, Markley

Skwarczek, Katherine
AGING WELL: SHAPING AGE IDENTITIES IN THE LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH WELFARE STATE
Chair: Hansen, Gaedtke, Mahaffey, Markley

Williams, Kyle
THE ASSEMBLED BODY: ANATOMICAL ENUMERATION AND EMBODIMENT IN ANGLO-SAXON DEVOTIONAL TEXT
Chair: Trilling, C. Wright, Camargo, Hansen

Zavala, Noel
ADOLESCENT TIME: ADOLESCENCE AND THE FORMATION OF CHICANO LITERATURE
Chair: Rodriguez; Co-Chair: Somerville, Alba, Koshy