Department Colloquia
Spring 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 4:00 p.m., Union 212
Anne Longmuir: " 'This was the world now': Falling Man and the Fiction of Don Delillo
after 9/11."
Wednesday, March 11, 4:00 p.m., Union 206
Lisa Tatonetti, "Visible Sexualities and Invisible Nations: Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes,
and The Business of Fancydancing."
Wednesday, April 29, 4:00 p.m., Union 212
Sixth Annual Graduate Literature Symposium.
Fall 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 4:00 pm.Union 207.
Philip Nel: "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Seuss and Race in the 1950s."
Wednesday, October 15, 4:00 pm. ECS 017.
Erica Hateley: "It's Just Not Cricket: Sexual Colonization in Woody Allen's Match Point and Richard Loncraine's Wimbledon."
Wednesday, November 3, 4:00 p.m.Union 212.
Graduate Student Symposium:
- Josh Pearson, "Masculine Identity as the Performance of Mastery: Batman in the Justice League of America."
- Megan Von Bergen, "These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins: Postwar Society in One of Ours."
- Leah Wisroth, "Seeking Manhood, Playing Soldier: The Re-Affirmation of Self and the Martial Ideal in WWI Civilian Training Camps."