May 1 Dr. Michael DePalma (Professional Writing, Baylor University) will present “Religious Rhetoric as a Course of Study: Twenty-first Century Prospects for Austin Phelps’s Rhetorical Pedagogy.” This talk draws on the final chapter of Austin Phelps and the Shaping of Sacred Rhetorical Education of Andover…
April 10th Dr. Rae Greiner (English, Indiana University) will present “Stupidity After Enlightenment.” Stupidity at the fin de siecle was fast becoming purely a matter of I.Q. Prior to this, eighteenth-century writers developed notions of dullness and of dunces, Romantic writers the figure…
April 24th Dr. Hester Blum (English, Pennsylvania University) will present “Polar Ecomedia: Print Culture in the Arctic and Antarctica.” What happens to messages left in bottles? Or in cairns, or in copper cylinders, or with passing ships? Blum’s paper discusses the history of Anglo-American…