"I am half-sick of shadows" said the Lady of Shallot
Sidney Meteyard, 1913
But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed:
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
The British Literature Colloquium meets for lunch roughly every two weeks (usually on Fridays) for a variety of activities designed to encourage graduate work. The colloquium focuses on on British Literature from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The group includes graduate students at all stages, faculty and visiting scholars. The graduate student coordinators for 2007-08 are Maia McAleavey and Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, and the faculty advisors are John Picker and Peter Nohrnberg. For more information, please contact dpollack@fas.harvard.edu.


BRITISH LITERATURE COLLOQUIUM: SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE


Friday, Feb. 8.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Leslie Brisman (Yale): "'What Took You So Long?': Scenes of Instruction in Shakespeare and Scripture" (talk/discussion)

Friday, Feb. 22.
1-3 pm Barker 133
Panel Discussion: Presenting at Conferences (Barker 133) with James Engell, Anna Henchman (BU), and Matthew Kaiser plus a practice session with Rebekah Maggor (Bok Center)

Friday, Feb. 29.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Pelagia Horgan: "Partial Narrow Shapes: Poetics and Problems of Detail in the Modern Novel" (prospectus)
Yi-Ping Ong: "Whose was the Nebulous, Unknown Face: Existentialism and Unfinished Works of Art in the Novel" (paper)

Friday, Mar. 14.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Maia McAleavey: "Disciplining the Sentimental Self: Little Nell Among the Philosophers" (chapter)
Lesley Goodman: "Rebellious Identification; Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arabella" (paper on Jude the Obscure)

Friday, Apr. 4.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner: "David Copperfield's Household Words" (chapter)
Eric Idsvoog: "Shelley's Patience" (chapter)

Friday, Apr. 11.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Margaret Rennix: "Private Madness: Self-Consciousness in Henry James's The Sacred Fount" (paper)

Friday, Apr. 25.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Isobel Armstrong: "Victorian Glassworld: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880" (talk/discussion)

Friday, May. 9.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Nicole Miller: "The Greenhouse Effect: Forcing a Horticultural Reading of Charles Dickens" (chapter)
Larry Switzky: "String Theory: Gordon Craig and the Material of Theater" (chapter) Cover Letter

Friday, May. 16.
1-3 pm Barker 269
Panel Discussion: State of the Victorian Field with James Buzard (MIT), John PLotz (Brandeis), and Leah Price

The graduate student coordinators for 2007-08 are Maia McAleavey and Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. If you would like to join our e-mail list, please contact dpollack@fas.harvard.edu .

BRITISH LITERATURE COLLOQUIUM: FALL 2007 SCHEDULE

Friday, Sept. 28
8 pm 16 Chatham St., #1
Colloquium Welcome Party

Friday, Oct. 5
1:30-3:30 pm Barker 018
Marjorie Garber and Daniel Albright
Panel: Critical Creativity

Friday, Oct.19.
1-3 pm Barker 110
Christopher Ricks ( Boston University ): Beckett's “Ceiling”

Friday, Nov. 16
1-3 pm Barker 269
Jacob Jost : "Eighteenth-Century Biography" (Fields List)
Amelia Klein : "Shelley and the Music of the Mutable"

Wednesday, Nov. 28
5-7 pm Barker 269
Larry Buell and Amanda Claybaugh
Panel: Transatlantic Studies, co-sponsored with the American Literature Colloquium

Friday, Nov. 30
1-3 pm Barker 269
Josh King : (Cover Letter)
"Burring with Johnny: Meter, Disarmed Judgment, and Sympathy in Wordsworth's 'The Idiot Boy.'"

Friday, Dec. 7
All day Barker 133
English Department Graduate Student Fall Symposium

Friday, Dec. 14
1-3 pm Barker 269
Josh Rothman: "'It Says . . . .': Consciousness and the Impossible Novelistic Narrator" (Dissertation Chapter)
Hannah Sullivan: "Passionate Correction: The Theory and Practice of Modernist Revision" (Dissertation Abstract), "Autobiography and the Problem of Finish" (Article on Virginia Woolf)

The graduate student coordinators for 2007-08 are Maia McAleavey and Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. If you would like to join our e-mail list, please contact dpollack@fas.harvard.edu .