American Colloquium: Spring Schedule

Wednesdays 5-7 in Barker 269, unless otherwise noted.

For further information or to join the colloquium E-mail list, please contact Adena Spingarn or Sarah Wagner-McCoy.


February 20  


Eric Bennett, “Paul Engle: Creative Writing Cold Warrior”
Liz Maynes-Amanzade, "Monuments to Change: Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War" (Cover Letter)


March 5


Nick Donofrio, “Hemingway’s Genre Trouble”
Sarah Wagner-McCoy, “Transatlantic Pastoral and the Realist Novel” (Prospectus)


March 19


Odile Joly, "Readymade Texts and the Perforated Lyric Voice in Modern American Poetry: Pound, Williams, and Moore” (Prospectus)
Maggie Gram, "The Abuses and Uses of Nature in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman


April 9-11   


*The Tanner Lectures given by Tony Kushner



April 16



Anita Patterson on her forthcoming book, Race, American Literature, and Transnational Modernisms


April 30


Marcella Frydman
, “New Money in the American Novel” (Prospectus)
Brian Hochman, "Lower Frequencies: Race, Writing, and New Media in American culture, 1904-1952" (Prospectus)


June 15-July 24


*School of Criticism and Theory 32nd Summer Session


June 16-June 22


*Dartmouth College Summer Institute: Re-Configurations of American Studies