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Apr
13
2018

2nd Annual English Department Honors Colloquium

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

Description:

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

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