Thursday, February 15, 4:00 pm. Union 212.
Don Hedrick: "Extreme Pleasures: From the Origins of Entertainment Value to the Entertainment Unconscious."

Tuesday, February 27, 4:00 p.m. Union 212.
Tim Dayton: "'In Times Like These': American Poetry and the First World War."

Tuesday, March 27, 4:00 p.m. Union 212.
Jim Machor: "After All Those Novels, Now Short Stories?: Reading Melville's Short Fiction in the American 1850's."

Thursday, April 26, 4:00 pm. Union 212.
Graduate Student Symposium: "Men in Extremity"

Russell Keck, "The Finest Hour of Byrhtnoth's Heordhwerod: The Function of Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon"

Andrea Engelken, "The Heroic Subject: Adam as Milton's Intended Hero of Paradise Lost"

Shaunté Montgomery, "Now at Sweet Home, My Niggers is Men": The Social Constructs of the Black Male Slave in Toni Morrison's Beloved"

Rachel Olsen, "It's Kind of Hard to Explain . . . It's Better Just to Look at One": Women, Masculinity, and the Reader in Zadie Smith's On Beauty"

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