Lecture – Peli Grietzer

Professor Nan Z. Da present a talk by Peli Grietzer. The talk is entitled, "Poetry, Knowledge, and Computation," and will be given on Wednesday, October 16 at 2:00 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D.

ELH Speaker Series – Penelope Geng, Macalester College

The English Department’s ELH Speaker Series presents a talk entitled, "Cripping Citizenship: Ablenationalism and the Racialized Privilege of Refusal in Timon of Athens," by Penelope Geng, Macalester College, on November 7th at 4:15 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D . Access to a password-protected copy of the pre-circulated paper will be available by contacting Christeen […]

Fearless Speech: Radical Truth-Telling in the Auto/biography of John Swanson Jacobs

Talk description: For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in […]

Greg Barnhisel

Information forthcoming. See page closer to the beginning of the spring.

Robert Higney

Information forthcoming. See page closer to the beginning of the spring. Part of our prospective student visiting day for those accepted to our PhD program.