A mini-conference highlighting research being done by graduate students in American literature and in modernism will take place on Friday, April 18.
Hosted by the English Department, the event -- titled "American Modernisms" -- will take place 2-5:30 p.m. in Rm. 310 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. It is free and open to the public.
A joint project of the Twentieth-Century Colloquium and the Americanist Colloquium, two research workshops in the department, this mini-conference will feature talks by six advanced graduate students in English on topics spanning the range of American literature. The conference is being organized by Megan Quigley and Nicholas Salvato, third-year graduate students in English.
The first panel, "Out of the 19th Century: Proofs, Pragmatists, and Precursors," 2-3:30 p.m., will examine how 19th-century American literature by Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Henry James influenced modernism. The speakers and topics are: Gabriel Alkon, "Bleeding Throats: Whitman, Crane, and the Voice of Life"; Rebecca Berne, "Calling a Dog a Dog: Evidence of Identity in Puddn'head Wilson"; and Megan Quigley, "The Vengeance of the Great Vagueness: Charles Sanders Peirce and 'The Beast in the Jungle.'"
The second panel, "Modernist Ladies' Rooms: Libraries, Closets, and Stages," 4-5:30 p.m., will focus on three American women writers of the 20th century: Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop. Speakers and topics are: Nicholas Salvato, "The Divine Miss Stein"; Karin Roffman, "The 135th Street Library, A Modernist Institution"; and Kamran Javadizadeh, "Elizabeth Bishop's Closet Drama."
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