DEVONEY LOOSER VISITING LECTURE, Thurs., 11/29

DEVONEY LOOSER
University of Missouri

"Mary Wollstonecraft, Author-Ghost: Enlightenment Origins of Modern Feminism"

This lecture considers the ways in which Wollstonecraft has been imagined as speaking from beyond the grave and what that “haunting” means—and has meant—to the history of feminism. Drawing on a fascinating and previously unknown manuscript—the unpublished fictional work called “Ithuriel”—Looser will examine the origins and continued relevance of our centuries-old penchant for imagining Wollstonecraft as a speaking spirit in conversation with both the living and the dead.

Thursday, November 29, 2012
7:30 PM
Center for the Humanities (Knauss 2500)

A reception will follow.

Devoney Looser is Catherine P. Middlebush Chair of English at the University of Missouri, and the author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008), the award-winning British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000; paperback 2005), and editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995) and (with E. Ann Kaplan) Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue (U of Minnesota P, 1997). She is co-editor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, has held numerous national and international fellowships, and recently led a 5-week NEH Summer Seminar on “Jane Austen and her Contemporaries.” In addition to being a frequent keynote and plenary speaker, she is also the recipient of multiple awards for teaching, and in her free time skates for a women's flat track roller derby team, the CoMo Derby Dames, under the name "Stone Cold Jane Austen".


Co-Sponsored by Gender and Women’s Studies, the University Center for Humanities, and the College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Committee.

For more information, please contact Prof. Christopher Nagle: christopher.nagle@wmich.edu

Ania Loomba/Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecture/Nov. 1

The English Department Scholarly Speakers Series presents

the Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecture

Ania Loomba
University of Pennsylvania

"The Tempest and the Histories of Globalization"

Thursday, November 1, 2012
7PM
Brown 2028

A reception will follow


Prof. Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the university and is also faculty in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, Women's Studies, and Asian-American Studies. Her writings include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press, 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005; with Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Swedish and Indonesian editions) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has co-edited Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005), Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007). She is series editor (with David Johnson of the Open University, UK) of Postcolonial Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press). Her latest publication is a critical edition of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Norton, 2011) and a co-edited collection of essays Feminisms in South Asia: Contemporary Interventions is forthcoming from Duke University Press.


For more information, please contact Prof. Eve Salisbury: eve.salisbury@wmich.edu

Fall Keynote Talk Features Perryman-Clark

The WMU English Department’s Scholarly Speakers Series

proudly presents our

Fall Keynote Lecture

Dr. Staci Perryman-Clark

"Rethinking Appropriateness and Inclusion:
Toward a Writing Programmatic Policy on Linguistic Diversity"

Thursday, September 20, 2012
7PM
Brown 3025

Free and open to the public


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Dr. Perryman-Clark is Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, with specialties in
 English and Rhetoric and Writing Studies as well as 
African American Language and Pedagogy. Her forthcoming book (under contract with Peter Lang Publishing), Afrocentric Teacher-Research: Rethinking Appropriateness and Inclusion, is a qualitative empirically-based teacher-research study that examines the ways in which African American students and all students perform expository writing tasks using an Ebonics-based Rhetoric and Composition focused first-year writing curriculum. As such, her work focuses on creating culturally-relevant pedagogies and curricular designs to support all students' expository writing practices.

[CANCELLED] Hoad on Wilde and Savagery - Visiting Lecture 11/10

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN *CANCELLED* & WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR A FUTURE DATE TBA!

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NEVILLE HOAD (University of Texas-Austin)

“Wildean Savagery”

In his lecture Hoad locates Victorian origin narratives, both Darwinian ontogeny/phylogeny recapitulation and Freud's theories of psychosexual development, as sites which produced curious and deeply imbricated discourses of the primitive and the homosexual. He proceeds to investigate how racial and imperial rhetorics of savagery and sexual deviance became entrenched in the writings of Oscar Wilde as well as in public declarations about the author, particularly during his infamous 1895 trial.

Thursday, November 10, 2011
7:00PM / Knauss 2500 (Center for the Humanities)
a reception will follow


Neville Hoad is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, the Center for African and African American Studies, and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He authored African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota, 2007) and co-edits (with Karen Martin and Graeme Reid) Sex & Politics in South Africa (Double Storey, 2005) and currently is writing a book on the literary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. His areas of research include African and Victorian literature, queer theory, and the history of sexuality.

Scholarly Speakers Series Fall 2009

This fall's lineup for the department's Scholarly Speakers Series has been finalized. Here's what's coming up:

Thursday, September 17, 7 PM, Brown 3025
Keynote talk
Anthony Ellis Department of English, Western Michigan University
“Old Age and the Uses of Comedy”
a presentation on his book Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on
the Italian and Shakespearean Stage (Ashgate, September, 2009)

Thursday, October 1, 7 PM, Brown 3025
Cynthia Davis Department of English, University of South Carolina
“‘The World was Home for Me’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Sentimental Public Sphere”
Co-sponsor: Department of History

Thursday, October 29, 7 PM, Brown 3025
Mustafa Mirzeler, Department of English, Western Michigan University
“The Memory of Rivers”

Thursday, November 12, 7 PM, Brown 2028
John Willinsky, School of Education, Stanford University
“What’s the Fuss about Open Access to Scholarly Work?”
Co-sponsors: University Libraries, College of Education, Third Coast Writing Project

Tuesday, December 1, 7 PM, Brown 2028
Alicia Ostriker, Department of English, Rutgers University (emerita)
title TBA
We are very pleased that Prof. Ostriker will participate in both the SSS and the GWEN FROSTIC READING SERIES on back-to-back nights. She will read from her creative work as part of the Frostic Series on Wednesday, December 2.