On Friday, October 30, Laura Green, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, will give a talk, entitled "Transforming Fictions: Literary Identification in the Novel of Formation (Schwartz, Dangarembga, Winterson)," as part of the department's Barrs Lecture Series.
The Department of African American Studies's Stormy Monday Colloquium will feature Professor Nicole Aljoe on November 5, 2009. Professor Aljoe's talk, "Remapping the Slave Narrative," will be a discussion on reimagining the slave narrative as transnational and diasporic rather than a solely US national genre.
The Humanities Center, Department of English, and Department of History are co-sponsoring a symposium to bring together an interdisciplinary panel of academic activists who focus on the challenges of research and pedagogy as they relate to the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Professors Kimberly Juanita Brown (English, Northeastern University), Peniel E. Joseph (History, Tufts University), and Charissa Threat (History, Northeastern University), who work within and beyond the parameters of the movement's ideology, will engage in a conversation about the different ways in which they enter the discourse of this historical, cultural, and political moment.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information about this event and the panelists, please visit: http://www.northeastern.edu/humanities.
Professor Kathleen Kelly is co-editor, with Tison Pugh, of the essay collection Queer Movie Medievalisms (Ashgate 2009). Queer Movie Medievalisms is the first book of its kind to grapple with the ways in which mediations between past and present, as registered on the silver screen, queerly undercut assumptions about sexuality throughout time. Professor Kelly is the author of Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages (Routledge).
Professor Elizabeth Britt, in collaboration with the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, is investigating the ways in which law students at a domestic violence clinic are trained to listen to women and to understand their own roles as advocates. Professor Britt's ethnographic research seeks to address questions about domestic violence advocacy such as: What are the implications for how domestic violence advocates approach their clients and their cases, both within the legal system and outside it? What can this example teach us more generally about the circulation of marginalized voices in the public sphere? Professor Britt is the author of Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility (Alabama, 2001).
Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon was a Research Fellow this summer at the John Carter Brown Library Center for New World Comparative Studies at Brown University. Professor Dillon's research at the library focused on race, gender, and cultural reproduction in the eighteenth-century colonial Caribbean. Professor Dillon is the author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford, 2004).
The Department of African American Studies's Stormy Monday Colloquium will feature Professor Nicole Aljoe on November 5, 2009. Professor Aljoe's talk, "Remapping the Slave Narrative," will be a discussion on reimagining the slave narrative as transnational and diasporic rather than a solely US national genre.
Professor Mary Loeffelholz recently participated in a live webcast panel discussion entitled "The Future of Reading," in which local experts discussed the benefits and pitfalls of new, electronic reading technologies such as the Kindle.
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