Fall 2014 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in Rosenwald 405 from 4:30-6:00pm

Thursday, October 9
Cass Picken, PhD student, English, University of Chicago
“Imperial Rents and Laissez-Faire Sentimentality in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Tales”

Monday, October 20, 12:00-1:30pm (please note unusual day and time)
Carolyn Steedman, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Warwick
“An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Work, Self and Sociability”

Thursday, November 6
Michael Dango, PhD student, English, University of Chicago
“The Utility of Focalization: Action and Representation in Phineas Finn”

Thursday, November 20
Sam Rowe, PhD student, English, University of Chicago
“Acquisitive Desire and Characterization in 18th-century British Fiction”

Thursday, December 4
Joel Calahan, PhD student, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Title TBA
Cosponsored with the Poetry and Poetics workshop

Monday, December 8
Lauren Schachter, PhD student, English, University of Chicago
“‘Well calculated for eloquence’: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Diffusive Style”
Cosponsored with the Poetry and Poetics workshop