Jill Rudy (English) and Jarom MacDonald (Office of Digital Humanities) will give the colloquium on Thursday. Their address is entitled “At the Crossroads of Data and Wonder: Algorithmic Visualizations of TV Fairy Tales.”
What is the Humanities Center?
Come learn about the opportunities the Humanities Center offers at our annual student open house. Mix and mingle with your fellow students and get more information about exciting visiting lecturers and opportunities to work in intimate settings with faculty research groups. Matt Wickman, Director of the Humanities Center, and students who hold Humanities Center fellowships will …
Colloquium: Laura Catharine Smith
Our Colloquium address this week will be given by Laura Catharine Smith, an associate professor of German Studies. Her presentation is entitled “The Syllable’s A-Foot: Solving the Mysteries of the History and Structure of German and Dutch.”
Research Group Meeting: Adaptation Studies
The Adaptation Studies Research Group will meet on Thursday and they invite others to attend the meeting if they are interested. They will be discussing the following articles: Elliot, Kamilla. “Rethinking Formal-Cultural and Textual-Contextual Divides in Adaptation Studies.” Literature/Film Quarterly 42.4 (2014): 576-93. Leitch, Thomas (2003). “Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory”, Criticism 45 (2): 149-171. Anyone interested …
Colloquium: David Laraway
Dr. Laraway currently serves as the chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University, where he teaches undergraduate courses on Hispanic literature and culture and graduate seminars on topics such as modernismo, contemporary Latin American poetry, and Borges and philosophy. Dr. Laraway’s presentation is entitled “American Idiots: Outsider Music and the Philosophy of …
Colloquium: Tony Brown, Jennifer Bown, and Bill Eggington
Tony Brown (German and Russian), Jennifer Bown (German and Russian), and Bill Eggington (Linguistics and English Language) will be giving this week’s colloquium. Their presentation is entitled “Developing Global Proficiency through Debate.”
Research Group Meeting: Derrida and the Question of Religion
The Derrida and the Question of Religion Research Group is meeting this Friday at 1:00 in JFSB 3101. Those interested in attending should contact Nate Kramer (CAL) to get the reading.
Conversations: “The Empathetic Turn in Literature Studies”
We’ll discuss a few short essays—including Elaine Scarry’s recent essay “Poetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading”—that discuss the surge of interest in empathy and the question (picked up in the popular press) of whether reading literature makes one a better person. Contact Matthew Wickman to obtain related readings.
Research Group Visit: Albrecht Classen
Albrecht Classen of the University of Arizona, German department, will be speaking to the Medieval Women in Writing course (team-taught by several colleagues, many of whom are affiliated with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Group.) If you are interested in attending, email Charlotte Stanford (of the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters) to get …
Research Group Meeting: Brandie Siegfried
Brandie R. Siegfried teaches courses in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. Her special interests include Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, early modern women writers, gender studies, Irish literary history, and film. Dr. Siegfried received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Brigham Young University, an M.A. in Women’s Studies from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. in …