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Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson is the Humanities Professor of Ethnomusicology and an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. She received a B.M. degree in harp performance from Brigham Young University, an M.A. degree in ethnomusicology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. …
Thursday, November 20 10:00am-5:00pm, B192 JFSB Friday, November 21 11:00am-1:00pm HBLL Auditorium This interdisciplinary symposium will investigate the relationship between poetic practice and spiritual practice, and will feature literary and religious studies scholars, theorists, and poets. Featured guests include Heather Dubrow (Fordham University), Josh Bell (Harvard University), Melissa Range (Lawrence University), Kevin Prufer (University of …
Susanne Luhmann will be discussing her chapter on pedagogy in Rethinking Gender and Women’s Studies and leading a conversation about teaching Women’s Studies. Read her bio here: http://www.wgs.ualberta.ca/en/FacultyandStaff/FacultyLuhmann.aspx
Maria Mercedes Andrade specializes in critical theory, modernism studies, and Latin American literature at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She’s the author of Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s). Tuesday’s meeting will workshop a chapter from her current project on the Colombian poet and novelist José Asunción Silva, …
William Marling is Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, where he studies and teaches American and World Literature. He has written six books and over 50 articles on subjects ranging from Poe, Hawthorne, and Fitzgerald to Marcel Duchamp’s influence on William Carlos Williams. The Genre Fiction and Modern Thought Research Group will meet with …
Robert Newman is Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah and, on July 1, will become the new Director of the National Humanities Center. A scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, Newman will be discussing the future of higher education in the humanities and initiatives he plans to undertake at the NHC.
Spencer Scoville of the Department of Asian and Near-Eastern Languages will be giving the colloquium. His research interests include, Modern Arabic Literature, Russian-Arab Literary/Cultural Connections, Translation Studies, and Arabic Language Pedagogy. His presentation will be entitled “Deceitful Translations and Ethical Forgeries: Pseudotranslation in Modern Egyptian Literature.”
Molly Murray teaches and writes about the non-dramatic literature of early modern England. Her main scholarly interests lie at the intersection of religion, politics, and poetic form; additional interests include autobiography, intellectual history, and the history of criticism. She is the author of a monograph, The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern Literature: Verse and Change from …
Jennifer Haraguchi, assistant professor of Italian, is presenting an article that she is submitting to Early Modern Women: An Interdisiplinary Journal to members of the Women’s Studies in Teaching and Research (WSTAR) group. Her article is entitled “Alternatives to the Convent: Lay Conservatories for Women in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Tuscany.”
The Derrida and the Question of Religion group is holding a meeting to discuss Derrida’s essay “Shibboleth: For Paul Celan.” Those interested in participating in the discussion should contact Matt Ancell or Nate Kramer.