Saturday , February 11, 2012
Georgia Medievalists' Group Spring 2012 Colloquium
The English department is proud to host the Spring 2012 semiannual meeting of the Georgia Medievalists' Group. All presentations will be held in Park 144.
10 am: Coffee, English Department Library, Park Hall
10:30: James Ryan Gregory, UGA: "Digestam... vitam direxi: Oral and Written Sources for the Twelfth-Century Cult of St. Wenefred"
11:00: Henry Bayerle, Oxford College, Emory University: "Barbarossa in Medieval Latin Epic"
11:30: Elizabeth Keohane, Fordam University: "The Venn Diagram of Politics and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: The Authorization of Holy Days by Convocations from the 13th to the 16th Centuries."
12:00: Lunch Break
2:00: Wendy Turner, Augusta State University: "Medieval Understanding of the Brain"
2:30: Christine Arabatzis, Kennesaw State University: "Angels and Troublemakers: An Analysis of Two Women Mystics in the Middle Ages"
3:00: Paul Dover, Kennesaw State University, "How Heinrich Bullinger Read his Solinus"
3:30: Convivitas et garrulitas
This event is funded by the Department of English, and is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Cynthia Turner Camp (ctcamp at uga dot edu). For more information on the Georgia Medievalists' Group (including contact information for future meetings), please visit http://www.reinhardt.edu/academics/Arts_Humanities/Faculty/JGood/gmg.html.
Monday , February 20, 2012
Graduate Admissions Committee
The faculty members of the Graduate Committee will meet in 261 Park Hall to consider applications to the Ph.D. and M.A. programs.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Georgia Colloquium in 18th & 19th Century British Literature
J. Paul Hunter, Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, will deliver a talk for the colloquium series. Dr. Hunter has published extensively on poetry and poetics, the couplet, the history of the novel, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Alexander Pope. His book, Before Novels: The Cultural Contextsof Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, was awarded the Louis Gottschalk prize for best book of the year by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1991.
This event is sponsored by the Willson Center and the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. More details to follow.
Friday , March 30, 2012
Cambridge History of the American Novel Discussion
The recently published Cambridge History of the American Novel traces the history of this genre from the eighteenth century to the current time. This exhaustive volume has generated a new national conversation about the direction and development of American Literature and the shaping of the American literary canon. Discussants will include the three general editors of the book: Leonard Cassuto, Professor of American Literature, Fordham University; Clare Eby, Professor of English and Acting Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut; and Benjamin Reiss, Professor of English, Emory University. UGA’s Dr. Valerie Babb and Dr. Barbara McCaskill also contributed to this volume and will participate. This event is supported in part by the President’s Venture Fund through the generous gifs of the University of Georgia partners. It is co-sponsored by the UGA Faculty Seminar on Transnational Studies, the Departments of English and Comparative Literature, and Dr. Douglas Anderson, Sterling-Goodman Professor of English. For questions, please contact Barbara McCaskill at bmccaski@uga.edu.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Program : Georgia Colloquium in 18th & 19th Century Literature
Paula Feldman, the C. Wallace Martin Professor English and the Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina, will deliver a talk for the colloquium series. Dr. Feldman has published extensively on nineteenth-century women’s writing. Her edited works include A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (Oxford University Press, 1999. Rpt. 2002), British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: 1770-184o (Johns Hopkins Press, 1992; Rpt. 2000), Felicia Hemans’ Records of Woman (University of Kentucky Press, 1999), and The Journals of Mary Shelley (Clarendon Press, 1987; Rpt. Johns Hopkins Press, 1995). Her periodical publications include studies of reception history, anonymous publication, and the history of the book.
This event is sponsored by the Willson Center and the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. More details to follow.
Friday , April 06, 2012
Public Talk by Professor Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University
Please save this date for a campus visit by Professor Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. A few of her publications are Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom (Duke UP, 2006), Jeff Buckley's Grace (Continuum Books, 2005), and Subterranean Blues: Black Women and Sound Subcultures--From Minstrelsy through the New Millenium (Harvard UP, forthcoming). Her essays on African American music and performance have appeared both in print and online in The Nation and Slate, and she has demonstrated her versatility on issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in essays placed in journals such as Callaloo, one of the premiere journals of African American literary criticism, and Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. This event is sponsored by the Departments of English and History, the Institute for Women’s Studies, the Institute for African American Studies, the School of Music, Dr. Barbara McCaskill, and Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English. Pending final confirmation, the Franklin Visiting Scholar Initiative is also supporting this event.. Contacts: Barbara McCaskill (bmccaski@uga.edu) and Roxanne Eberle (eberle@uga.edu).