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,…
April 13th Dr. Anne Frey (English, Texas Christian University) will present “The National Tale and the Pseudonymous Author: ‘Rosalia St. Clair’ in England, Scotland, and Ireland.” Dr. Frey is the author of British State Romanticism (Stanford 2009), a highly original study of the ways…
March 23rd Baylor English Doctoral students Bethany Bear, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Steven Petersheim will present portions of their dissertation research in a special panel entitled “Nature, Community, and Inheritance: Reimagining Religious Traditions in the Nineteenth Century.”
September 22nd In a special session on Transatlantic Studies, Dr. Michael DePalma (English, Baylor) will present “Rhetorical Education for the Nineteenth-Century Pulpit: Austin Phelps and the Influence of Christian Transcendentalism at Andover Theological Seminary” and Dr. Maura Jortner (English, Baylor) “Captain Basil Hall and The…
October 20th Dr. Suzanne Bordelon (Rhetoric and Writing Studies, San Diego State) will present “‘Resolved that the Mind of Woman is not Inferior to that of Man’: Women’s Oratorical Preparation in California State Normal School Coeducational Literary Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century.”
December 7th Dr. David Clinton (Political Science, Baylor) will present “The Case of the Tamworth Reading Room: Sir Robert Peel and Civil Disorder in Early Victorian England”