LARC History, 2005–Present
2010 - 2011
September 23
Patrick Cheney (Distinguished Alumnus, Penn State University): "'The forms of things unknown': English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime"
October 8
Chris Comer (Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences) and Ashley Taggart (IES Abroad Director, Dublin): "Plurabilities: Brain, Mind and the Imagination and Anglo-Irish Literature"
November 19
Benjamin Adams (M.A. candidate, English): "'Yet another artifact leached out of the earth': Style, Character and the Texture of Death in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree"
December 3
Nat Levtow (Assitant Professor of Liberal Studies): "'You Have Burned this Scroll': The Production and Destruction of Texts in the Bible and the Ancient World"
CHANGE: This Colloquium will be held at 4:30pm.
February 11
John Glendening, Professor of English: “Science, Religion, and Ichthyosaurs in the Victorian Postmodern Past”
March 18
Louise Economides, Associate Professor of English: "Romantic Wonder and Sublime Pollution in Postmodern Art"
2009 - 2010
October 31
A.J. Jackson (M.A. Literature candidate): "The Meaning of Pain: Coming of Age in McCarthy´s Border Trilogy"
January 29
Lisa Simon (Visiting Professor of English): "Materials and Myths: The Anthropoetics of H.D."
February 19
Ruth Vanita (Professor of Liberal Studies): "‘The Joys of Delhi:’ Female Urbanity in Early 19th–Century Urdu Poetry"
March 12
Debra Earling (Professor of English): "The Lost Journals of Sacajawea"
April 16
Heather Bruce (Professor of English) and David Moore (Professor of English): "The Rhetorics and Poetics of Peacebuilding"
2008 - 2009
September 12
Angelica Lawson (Assistant Professor of Native American Studies): "Resistance and Resilience in the Poetry of Tohono O´odham Writer Ofelia Zepeda"
October 17
Jill Bergman (Associate Professor English): "‘Sometimes I feel like a motherless child’: Motherhood and Nation in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins"
November 14
Katie Kane (Associate Professor English): "Reading Georgio Agamben´s State of Exception"
February 13
Brady Harrison (Professor of English): "‘man´s meat ain´t proper meat’: The Big Sky, Cannibalism, and the Clap"
March 13
Lynn Itagaki (Assistant Professor of English): "Civility, Proximity, Intimacy"
April 10
Brian Blanchfield (Visiting Professor of English): "The Prospect Poem and Google Earth: Aerial View and Vantage in Romantic and Contemporary Poetic Composition"
April 17
Eric Reimer (Assistant Professor English): "Post–Imperial Cartography in Eoin McNamee´s Resurrection Man"
2007 - 2008
February 29
Chris Knight (Professor of English): "Omissions are not Accidents"
March 14
Yvonne Hammond (M.A. Literature candidate), "Taming the Wild: An Examination of Canadian Identity Formation and the Environment Through the Voice of Ann–Marie MacDonald"
April 11 Benedicte Boisseron (Assistant Professor of French): "Love Speech in the Literature from the French Antilles"
2006 - 2007
February 2
Heather Bruce (Professor of English): "I´d Rather Teach Peace: A Case for Feminist Peace Rhetorics."
March 16
Nancy Cook (Professor of English): "Martha Stewart in the Wilderness?: Women in the National Parks"
April 6
Michael Lukas (M.A. Literature candidate): "Prospects for a Nietzschean Ecology"
April 20
Robert Stubblefield (Lecturer, Dept. of English): "By Some Gliding Stream: Walton, Wordsworth and the Riverscape Legacy of the Aesthetic."
2005 - 2006
September 16
Dr. Lynn Itagaki (Assistant Professor of English): "Unmassing the Media, Securing the Suburbs: From the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising to Post–9/11."
October 14
David Moore (Associate Professor of English): "From Genocide to the Seventh Generation: Sherman Alexie Rewriting America."
November 18
Casey Charles (Associate Professor of English): "Dramatizing Law´s Fictions: Straight Jury for a Gay Murder in Mann´s Execution of Justice"
December 2
Lydia Willoughby (M.A.–Literature candidate), "‘Bookaneers’: Literary Property and Authorship in Antebellum America."
March 3
Louise Economides (Assistant Professor of English)
March 17
Desiree Cromwell and Erin Hendel (M.A. Literature candidates)
April 21
Rob Browning (Visiting Professor of English)
