2021 Symposium

Seminar 1: Theoretical Coordinates

Tuesday, June 1, 12:00-2:00 PST/ 3:00-5:00 EST

Introduction: Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld (Pomona College)

Moderator: Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)

Presenters:

Heather James (University of Southern California), “The Graveyard and the Frontier: Hamlet among the Buffaloes.

Christopher Warley (University of Toronto, St. George), “The Coy Critic”

Seminar 2: Poetry and Criticism

Tuesday, June 8, 12:00-2:00 PST/ 3:00-5:00 EST

Moderator: Tessie Prakas (Scripps College)

Presenters:

Kimberly Johnson (Brigham Young University), “That spectacle of too much weight for me: The Compensations of Form”

Aaron Kunin (Pomona College), “New Enemies of Promise”

Seminar 3: Process, Practice, Pedagogy

Tuesday, June 15, 12:00-2:00 PST/ 3:00-5:00 EST

Moderator: Stephanie Elsky (Rhodes College)

Presenters:

Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College), “Choose Your Own Adventure”

Jeff Dolven (Princeton University), “On Exercise”

Ian Smith (Lafayette College), “Betraying the Text: Whiteness and the Denial of Meaning”

Seminar 4: Renaissance Is a Verb

Tuesday, June 22, 12:00-2:00 PST/ 3:00-5:00 EST

Moderator: Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College)

Roundtable Reflections: Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), Rachel Eisendrath (Barbard College), Stephanie Elsky (Rhodes College), Tessie Prakas (Scripps College), Lucía Martínez Valdivia (Reed College), Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut, Avery Point).

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