The Staff and Students Relations Committee invites you to the annual Research Roundtable! Designed to foster conversation across fields and research areas, the Research Roundtable provides an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to share their work with each other and highlights the range of research being pursued within the Department of English. We hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a stimulating discussion!
Event Date: November 9, 2012, from 1:30 PM-4:15 PM.
Location: JHB 616
A wine and cheese reception at 4:30 will conclude the day.
Please find the schedule of presenters below.
Session One (1:30-2:45 PM)
Speakers:
- Professor Jeremy Lopez, “Bad Literature: Does it Exist?”
- Morgan Vanek, PhD candidate, “Under the Weather: Environmental Influence in Travel Writing about North America, 1700-1795”
- Professor Ato Quayson, “Spatial Practices and Performative Streetscapes: On Oxford St., Accra”
- Andrea Day, PhD candidate, “Leonora Blanche Lang and the Fairy Books”
Coffee and Dessert Break (2:45-3:00)
Session Two (3:00-4:15)
Speakers:
- Professor Jenny Kerber, “Writing and Rewriting Boundaries along the St. Lawrence Seaway”
- Talia Regan Palmer, PhD candidate, “The Sound and the Fury of Esquire’s Readers: Langston Hughes, Esquire, and the Literary Marketplace”
- Professor Simon Stern,”Legal Fictions and Literary Plots”
- Peter Latka, PhD candidate, “roges and ronnawayes: British Aborigines and the Tudor Historical Imaginary”
4:30 PM Wine and Cheese Reception