Winter 2025

All Colloquia will take place in 4010 JFSB at 3:00 PM unless otherwise specified. Please visit the event page for more details.

	January 16 Timothy Hampton (UC Berkeley) “Make a Cheerful Noise: Joy and the Literature of Modest Passions”
	January 23 Matt Ancell “A World with Two Suns: Skeptical Faith in Calderón de la Barca The Schism in England”
	January 30 Foreign Language Housing Research Group “Balancing Language Development and Belonging in a Domestic Language Immersion Program”
	February 13 Jennifer Banks (Yale University Press) “Natality: Toward a New Language for Birth”
	February 27 Brandon Baird (Middlebury College) “Hearing Race on a Single Word” *This event will be held in the EIZ Theater (B192JFSB)
	March 6 George Handley “Literature as Theodicy: Exploring the Postsecularity of Literature in a Time of Climate Crisis”
	March 20 Aaron Eastley “All Distance Gone”: Leslie Norris’s Transnational Poetics
	April 3 Akshya Saxena (Vanderbilt University) “Comparative Literature, Infrastructures of Loss, and the Promises of Multilingualism”
	April 10 Cherice Montgomery “Outside the Lines: The Presumptuous Power of Play”