Friday, Nov. 16th 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Professor Clare Simmons (Ohio University) will present her talk, “Christmas Ghosts:” Writers of the earlier nineteenth century represented the traditional English Christmas as in decline, yet within a few decades Christmas celebration gained new life…
Friday, Nov. 9th 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Dr. Devoney Looser (Foundation Professor of English, Arizona State University) presented her talk, “The Making of Jane Austen:” How did Jane Austen (1775-1817), a moderately successful English novelist in her own lifetime, become an international…
Friday, Sept. 21 3:30-4:30 ABL Seminar Room Workshop led by Professor Clare Simmons, 2018 Three-month Research Fellow at the ABL: “Publishing your First Paper and Submitting for Conferences.”
Friday, September 14 3:45-4:45 ABL Lecture Hall The 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (OGSPA) winners will present talks based on their papers. Nicholas Krause (Doctoral Student, Theology and Ethics) will present “Scarcity, Economy, and the Poetics of Creation: Chartist Reimaginings of Political-Economic Space,”…
Friday, Sept. 7 2:45-3:30 ABL Cox Hall Reception for Professor Clare Simmons, 2018 Three-month Research Fellow at the ABL 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Kristen Pond (English, Baylor) will present her Sabbatical Talk titled, “‘I Spy a Stranger!’: Victorian Newspapers and the Stranger at the…