These seminars allow faculty members and advanced graduate students alike an opportunity to present their research interests in a casual environment.  The coordinators for 2008-2009 are Ann Martinez, Masami Sugimori, and Daryl Lynn Dance; please contact them for more information, or with suggestions for future sessions.

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Previous Sessions

• 2008-2009

Fall 2008

Jennie Joiner, Ph.D. candidate, gave a presentation titled "The Matter of Marriage in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Fiction."

Professor Philip Barnard presented on "Theory and Practice: from Cultural Revolution to the Anglophone Novel of the 1790s."

Spring 2009

Andrew Kuhn, M.A. student, spoke about Irish book production in his presentation: "The Weird Sisters and Liam Dolmen: Irish Book Production in the Twentieth Century."

Professor John Edgar Tidwell presented on "More than Scissors and Glue: Editorial Labor as Art and Scholarship."

• 2007-2008

Professor Giselle Anatol and Graduate Student Brian Harries talked about "Beyond Hogwarts: Harry Potter in Academia."

Associate Professor Marjorie Swann discussed her latest work, "Sex and the Single Queen: The Erotic Lives of Elizabeth Tudor in Seventeenth-Century England."

• 2006-2007

Ann Rowland, Assistant Professor, talked about her book project, "Romantic Theories of Childhood and Literary Culture."

Masami Sugimori, Ph.D. candidate, discussed his work on "Racial Mixture, Racial Passing, and White Subjectivity in William Faulkner's Works."

• 2005-2006

Richard Hardin, Professor, presented on Plautus in the Renaissance.

Emily Wicktor, Ph.D. candidate, presented on Victorian Pornography.

Doreen Fowler, Professor, presented on Identity and 20th century American literature.

Shawn Thomson, Ph.D. candidate, presented on 19th century American literature.

• 2004-2005

Giselle Anatol, Associate Professor, presented her work on her latest project, "The Things That Fly in the Night: Black Female Vampires in Literature of the African Americas."

Mary Catherine Davidson, Assistant Professor, presented on Medieval Multilingualism.

Matthew Candelaria, Ph.D. candidate, presented on his dissertation, "Flies in the Soup: Disgust, Food, and Verminous Horrors."