October 4th Dr. Sarah Robbins (English, Texas Christian University) will present “A Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic ‘Lean In’ Story: How Jane Addams and Henrietta Barnett Used Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring.” This talk will share Dr. Robbins’ recent research on the rhetoric of gendered friendship maintained by Jane…
November 15th Dr. Bill Boelhower (English, Louisiana State University) will present “Atlantic Studies in Theory and Practice: The Case of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave.”
December 6th Baylor English Doctoral students Melinda Creech and Michael Milburn will present in this semester’s Graduate Student Panel. Melinda Creech will present “Grace Notes: The Provenance of a Fragment of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ ‘The Loss of the Eurydice’.” On July 13, 1966, the…
February 8th Dr. Joshua King (English, Baylor) will present“Tennyson’s ‘Christian Year’: The Minimum of Faith & National Spiritual Community.” This talk will share the results of his research leave in fall 2012 to work on his book, Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print.…
March 1st Dr. Ralph Wood (Religion, Baylor) will present “Chesterton and Newman.”
April 19th Dr. Mark Knight (English, University of Toronto) will present “A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens’s Tale of Conversion.”
April 26th Baylor Doctoral students Rex Carr (Political Science) and Jeremy Leatham (English) will present in this semester’s Graduate Student Panel. Rex Carr will present “Overcoming the Past: Nietzsche’s Creator and the Contributions of Christianity.” This talk explores how Nietzsche’s vision of the future and the…
Dr. Catherine Hobbs, professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, is discussing her forthcoming book Sisters of the South: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Citizenship at Public Women’s Colleges. We invite you to join us as we welcome Dr. Hobbs. Below is a…
Dr. Lisa Shaver (English, Baylor) will present “Thou Shalt Not: Forging a Women’s Rhetoric.” This talk examines the rhetorical tactics used by the antebellum American Female Reform Society. Established in 1834 in New York to combat prostitution and other licentious behavior, the American Female…
February 24th Dr. Kelly Wisecup (English, University of North Texas) will present“The Rites Ceremonies & Superstitions of their own Countries”: Race, Rebellion, & Medicine in British Atlantic .” British American colonists believed that several late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century slave rebellions were inspired by obeah,…