When:
Friday, April 13, 2018
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: University Hall, Room 201, The Hagstrum Room, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
English Department
(847) 491-7294
Group: English Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Five graduating seniors will give 10 minute presentations drawn from the honors theses they are currently bringing to a conclusion. The presentations will be followed by conversation and a reception.
3:00-4:10: Modernism at Large
• Helen Murphy on the “sister arts” in the paintings of Vanessa Bell and the prose of Virginia Woolf
• Anna Kubacsek on the soundscapes of colonialism in the novels of E.M. Forster and Joseph Conrad
• Henry Burg on the moment of aesthetic perception in Edgar Allan Poe and Marcel Proust
o Q & A Moderated by Harris Feinsod
4:15 – 5:00: Racial Imaginaries in American Literature
• Kori Cooper on the reception history of Gone with the Wind as novel and film
• Taylor Mikulski on postmodern novelist Steve Erickson’s paradoxical visions of America
o Q & A Moderated by Harris Feinsod