Friday, 18 April 12:30-1:30 pm 7101 HC White
Graduate Student Roundtable Discussion with Professor Chinitz:
We will be discussing the evolution of Professor Chinitz's ideas and work on Hughes, moving from an older published essay (Available through Project Muse here) to an in-progress piece, as well as leaving room for unanswered questions about his lecture on April 17.
Hard copies of the readings will be available in the English Department Library for photocopying.
Please contact Megan Massino (massino@wisc.edu) for electronic copies of the readings or any additional information.
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Friday, November 30 12-1pm 7101 HC White
Graduate Student Roundtable with Jennifer Wicke
At the roundtable we will discuss two articles by Professor Wicke, one of which is being recycled from our recent forum on the global commodity:
"Mrs. Dalloway Goes to Market: Woolf, Keynes, and Modern Markets" NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction Vol. 28 No. 1 (Autumn 1994): 5-23. Access through JSTOR here
and
"Appreciation, Depreciation: Modernism's Speculative Bubble" Modernism/Modernity Vol. 8 No. 3 (September 2001): 389-403. Access through Project Muse here
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Thursday, November 15 5-6pm 7191 HC White
Forum on "The Global Commodity" Featuring Faculty Respondent Susan Friedman
Reading: Jennifer Wicke, "Appreciation, Depreciation: Modernism's Speculative Bubble" [Modernism/Modernity Vol. 8 No. 3 (September 2001): 389-403.
Access reading through Project Muse here
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Thursday, April 17 4:00 pm English Department Library
Discussion of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Link to text here, available in hard copy in the department library
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“An Aesthetic of Conscientious Objection: Domestic Interiors Against the War”
A Graduate Student Roundtable with Christopher Reed
(Department of Art History, Lake Forest College)
Thursday, 22 March @ 12:00 p.m.
Room 6191, Helen C. White Hall
Reading Chapters 10 & 12 of Bloomsbury Rooms
Sponsors: Middle Modernity Colloquium, Art History, Anonymous Fund, Contemporary Literature Colloquium
Co-Sponsors: African Language and Literature, Women’s Studies, Theater, Languages and Cultures of Asia.
Contact: kcpiper@wisc.edu
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Tuesday, February 27th 4 pm Department Library
Reading/Discussion group led by Brenda Hsu
A discussion of Wyndham Lewis's _Blast_ Manifesto with Martin
Puchner's "The Aftershocks of Blast: Manifestos, Satire, and the Rear-Guard of Modernism" (from Bad Modernisms, eds. Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz)
In his article, Puchner takes Wyndham Lewis's Blast to task through a consideration of its position at the back of the forward march of modernism:
"Without wanting to go back and without wanting to embrace some utopian future, the only attitude that was left for [Lewis] was that of a defensive battle on all fronts, a reactive form of avant-garde, even a reaction to and against the various avant-gardes, what I will call a rear-guard action against every major force and movement of the time."
A copy of the readings is available in the departmental library or in PDF in the left side bar.
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Friday, December 1st 12:30 pm H.C. White Rm. 7101
Roundtable with graduate students: “A Shrinking Island” Jed Esty.
Sponsored by the Anonymous Fund, the Contemporary Literature Colloquium, the Modernisms/Modernity Colloquium, the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies Program, the Department of History (pending), and the Cosmopolitan Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop.
Moderator: Mitch Nakaue.
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The Modernisms/Modernities Colloquium is pleased to announce a forum on Cinematic Modernity
Join us for a discussion of F.W . Murnau's Sunrise (1927)
on Tuesday, Oct. 31 at 4:00pm in 6191 H.C. White
Respondents: Joshua Stokdyk, Ray Hsu and
Prof. Cyrena Pondrom (UW-Madison)
Moderated by Amy Johnson
A Screening of the film will take place on Monday, Oct 30 at 6:00pm (6191 H.C. White)
Additional Readings available in the English Dept Library and from the right hand column of this page
Co-sponsored by the Anonymous Fund
Questions: Contact Aarthi Vadde vadde@wisc.edu or Amy Johnson amjohnson3@wisc.edu
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Past events:
October 24: reading group meeting at 4 pm in the departmental library.
Kevin Piper will be leading a discussion on the introductory chapter of Paul Sheehan's Modernism, Narrative, and Humanism
(Cambridge, 2002), titled "The Anthropometric Turn." Sheehan considers
literary modernism as a critique of philosophical humanism.
You can download a PDF of the reading here, and there will be a hard copy in the departmental library for photocopying.
October 10th: Ray Hsu workshoped his dissertation chapter, "Feeling Out Imperialism: Zora Neale Hurston’s Ethnography, Haiti, and Comparative Forms of Possession," at 4pm in the English Department Library.
Tuesday, September 26: Reading Group Meeting
Deborah Parson's Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity (Oxford UP, 2000): "Introduction: Gendered Cartographies of Viewing," and "Mythologies of Modernity." Parsons considers the question of gender and modernity through an exporation of the flaneur/flaneuse in 19th and 20th century literature.
Optional but recommended reading is the second chapter of Parsons' book, "The Woman of the Crowd," and Virginia Woolf's essay "Street Haunting" (from Death of the Moth).
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Reading groups happen once monthly on a Tuesday. We welcome those interested in moderating future readings to contact our reading group coordinator, Sara Phillips. Workshops for dissertators in the English Department can be organized by contacting Aarthi Vadde.