September 13th Dr. Joe Stubenrauch (History, Baylor) will present “‘Leaves of Edification’: Evangelical Sentimentalism and Picturesque Tourism in the Early Nineteenth Century.” This talk will share research from his current book project, titled The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Britain, 1780-1851. The book argues that…
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…