Joseph Bartolotta presents on Rhetoric and Literacy Thursday, March 27, 12:30 pm

UNM Department of English Language & Literature
Spring 2014 Colloquium Series
 
Joseph Bartolotta
Lecturer, Rhetoric & Writing Program
UNM Department of English Language & Literature

Thursday, March 27, 2014
12:30 p.m.
English Department Lounge
2nd Floor, Humanities

Dr. Bartolotta’s research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and literacy. The questions that drive his research are: How and where do people learn rhetorical strategies? Further, how is rhetorical acuity related to literacy training? Joseph recently defended his dissertation titled “Laboring Literacy: Rhetoric, Language, and Sponsors of Literacy in Workers’ Education in the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union 1914-1939,” which is concerned with non-academic literacy in a professional context and argues that the acquisition of literacy itself constitutes a rhetorical act, as learners are trained by literacy standards that urge a certain rhetorical interaction with existing power structures.

English Department Colloquium, Wednesday, March 12 at noon

For our first English Department Colloquium presentation of the semester, Belinda Wallace will present "'It is only she that brings them to any life:' Mapping a Meta-Colonial Feminist Space in Dionne Brand's Ossuaries." 

 

Wednesday March 12 at noon, SUB Fiesta A.

Leigh Johnson returns to talk about the Academic Job Search this Friday, Dec. 6 at noon.

Please join us this Friday, December sixth, in the Frank Waters Room at Zimmerman library for Dr. Leigh Johnson's talk and roundtable discussion on navigating job searches in the Humanities. 

 Dr. Johnson received her PhD from UNM's English Department in May of 2011 and attained a tenure-track position at Marymount University in Virginia. Dr. Johnson is now sitting on a search committee that has received hundreds of applicants. She will bring her expertise and insight from both sides of the search process.

This talk will be  a part of Dr. Worden's English 500 Symposium. The symposium will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Dr. Johnson's talk and roundtable will go from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m, and EGSA will provide a light lunch. Please come support your colleagues as they present their original work and absorb the wisdom of a successful UNM alum!

English 500 Symposium -- Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 in Zimmerman Library

The English 500 Symposium

Friday, December 6th
Frank Waters Room, Zimmerman Library

9:00-10:20: PANEL I

Emily Frontiere (MA program, Medieval Studies)
“Costs, Costs, Costs and Nothing is Done”: Lawyers and Power in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

Emily Simons (MA program, Medieval Studies)
Blurred Lines: The Female and the Animal in Marie de France’s Lais

Bradley Tepper (MA program, Literature)
Thomas Hardy’s Use of Law in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

10:30-11:50: PANEL II

Margaux Brown (MA program, Literature)
From Christian Salvation to Literary Salvation: Jupiter Hammon’s “An Essay on Slavery”

Megan Malcom-Morgan (MA program, Literature)
An Echo in the Hollow: The Intrusion of Race in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Mariya Tseptsura (PhD program, Rhetoric & Writing)
The Return of Cold War Rhetoric: Mission Possible?

12-1: LUNCH BREAK

1:10-2:30: PANEL III

Leandra Binder (PhD program, BILS)
“Maddened Blood”: Nietzschean Animalism in Felix Salten’s Bambi

Kelly Hunnings (PhD program, BILS)
Seeking the Familiar in John Clare’s Middle Period Satire

Gerard Lavin (MA program, Medieval Studies)
Instrument of Revelation: Understanding “Pearl” as an Object of Religious Contemplation

2:40-4:30: PANEL IV

Diana Filar (MA program, Literature)
Windigo, Overheard Dreams, and the Direct Impact of Story: Vengeful Agency as Influenced by Ancestral Stories in Louise Erdrich’s Round House

Amy Gore (PhD program, ALS)
Indigenizing the Gothic Novel: Harold Johnson’s Backtrack and its Uncanny Conventions

Kathryn Manis (MA program, Art History)
Man and Superman: Reframing the “Man of Steel” in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Karra Shimabukuro (PhD program, BILS)
Grimm and La Llorona: Liminal Space or Appropriation?

Daniel Worden speaks on “Neoliberal Style: Alex Haley, Hunter S. Thompson, and Countercultures”

UNM Department of English Language & Literature
invites you to the
Fall 2013 Colloquium Series

A talk by

Daniel Worden
Assistant Professor
UNM Department of English Language & Literature
American Literary Studies

“Neoliberal Style: Alex Haley, Hunter S. Thompson, and Countercultures”

In this talk, Daniel Worden will present work from his current book project, Cool Realism: The New Journalism and American Literary Culture. His talk will chart how the highly successful work of two New Journalists—Alex Haley and Hunter S. Thompson—articulates a view of the social world that can now, retrospectively, be described as neoliberalism.

Daniel Worden is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.  He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, which received the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies and was recently reissued in paperback. His work on American literature, comics, film, and television has appeared in a number of journals and edited volumes, including Criticism, Modern Fiction Studies, Southern Literary Journal, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking.

Please join us
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
12:30 p.m.
English Department Library
Humanities Building, Room 324

Erin Murrah-Mandril speaks on "Ghosts in the Archive: Recovering the Work of Adina De Zavala" Wednesday, Nov. 13, 12:00 noon

The Feminist Research Institute is proud to host the FRI Research Lecture Series:

"Ghosts in the Archive: Recovering the Work of Adina De Zavala"
Erin Murrah-Mandril, Department of English 

Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 – 1:00 
SUB Luminaria 

http://femresin.unm.edu/events/2013/11/murrah-mandril/

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at femresin@unm.edu or visit us on the web at http://femresin.unm.edu.

Aeron Hunt's talk, “The Heir Apparent: Gender and the Transmission of Talent in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester,” Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 12:00 noon

UNM Department of English Language & Literature

invites you to the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series

A talk by

Aeron Hunt

Assistant Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies

“The Heir Apparent: Gender and the Transmission of Talent in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester”

Dr. Hunt’s EDC talk is drawn from her forthcoming book Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, which explores the intersections of literature, economics, and commerce in Victorian Britain by turning attention to the embodied, interpersonal, and socially embedded interactions of everyday economic life. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Personal Business examines how the personal and its textual and performative form, character, represent a crucial mode of power within the Victorian economy. By placing representations of the personal in business by novelists such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant alongside nonliterary genres, Personal Business provides new ways to understand the history of the Victorian novel and its implication in the turbulent experience of nineteenth-century capitalism. In so doing, Personal Business presents a case for the continued value of interdisciplinary scholarship as a means to generate fresh insights in literary, historical, and cultural studies alike. This presentation will examine Margaret Oliphant’s novel Hester (1883) in light of the turn to scientific language to construct the personal in business, arguing that Oliphant’s attention to gender as she maps the vagaries of “hereditary talent” challenges readers to reevaluate contemporary narratives of business character.

  

Please join us 

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

12:00 p.m. 

English Department Lounge

Humanities Building, Second Floor

Julie Williams talks on "The Changing Landscape of a Peripatetic Philosopher: Health and Home in the Life of Mary MacLane" Monday, Nov. 4, at 12:00 noon

The Feminist Research Institute is proud to host the FRI Research Lecture Series:





"The Changing Landscape of a Peripatetic Philosopher: Health and Home in the Life of Mary MacLane"

Julie Williams, Department of English Language and Literature

Monday, November 4, 2013 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM

SUB Luminaria

http://femresin.unm.edu/events/2013/11/williams/

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at femresin@unm.edu or visit us on the web at http://femresin.unm.edu.

Justin Brock speaks on "The Critical Voices From the Joyous Gard: the Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthure" Friday, Nov. 1, 12:00 noon

The Feminist Research Institute is proud to host the FRI Research Lecture Series:

"The Critical Voices From the Joyous Gard: the Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthure"

Justin Brock, PhD Student at the Univ. of Oregon and UNM Alumnus

Friday, November 1, 2013 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Mesa Vista 1104 (History Common Room)

http://femresin.unm.edu/events/2013/11/brock/

Justin, as many of you know, was the FRI Graduate Assistant last year and is returning to UNM for this special presentation after graduating with his MA in English with a focus on Medieval Studies.  We are thrilled to welcome him back and we invite you to join us for this event.  We look forward to learning a great deal from his discussion.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at femresin@unm.edu or visit us on the web at http://femresin.unm.edu.

Dan Mueller Demystifies 'Red Cinquefoil' at English Dept. Colloquium Tues, Nov. 5, 12:30 pm

UNM Department of English Language & Literature
 invites you to the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series
 
A talk by
Daniel Mueller
Associate Professor
Director of Writing, Coordinator of Creative Writing
UNM Department of English Language and Literature
 
“Demystifying ‘Red Cinquefoil’:
A Reading and Talk by Daniel Mueller”

Description: Red Cinquefoil, a member of the rose family, is a wild flower native to the high desert.  In my story, it is also the code name for one of 921 subterranean nuclear test explosions conducted on the Nevada Test Site between 1951 and 1992.  Following a reading of a story first published in CutBank and subsequently anthologized in Surreal South 09 before appearing in my collection of stories NIGHTS I DREAMED OF HUBERT HUMPHREY, published this year by Outpost 19 Books, I will deconstruct the story, laying bare the elements consciously manipulated during its initial composition and subsequent revisions, demystifying to the extent possible a deeply personal and idiosyncratic creative process.

Please join us
 Tuesday, November 5, 2013
12:30 p.m.

English Department Library
Humanities Building, Room 324

Annarose Fitzgerald presents her paper "Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen," Thursday, October 3

This is just a reminder that Annarose Fitzgerald will be presenting her paper, "'Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen': Mina Loy and the Necessity of the Material" Thursday, October 3, in the Student Union Building, Luminaria room, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.
Please join us for discussion, questions, and light refreshment!

Greg Martin speaks on Memory, Emulation and Influence and the Art of Memoir on October 8 in Hum. 324

UNM English Department

invites you to our 2nd Colloquium of the Fall

Gregory Martin

Associate Professor

UNM Department of English Language & Literature

Director, BA/MD Program

"Memory, Emulation and Influence and the Art of Memoir"

Memory is not a story, but a blur out of the corner of the mind’s eye. To make a story out of memory requires amplification, emphasis, speculation. Credibility problems are part of the enterprise, and many memoirists take on memory, itself, as one of their thematic preoccupations--its strange workings and elusiveness and unreliability. In his talk and reading, Professor Martin will discuss some memoirists he admires (Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Vladimir Nabokov, William Maxwell, WG Sebald) and their influence on his recent memoir STORIES FOR BOYS.  

Please Join Us

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

12:30 p.m.

English Department Library

Humanities Building, Room 324

Jonathan Davis-Secord presents at English Dept. Colloquium Sept. 24 at 12:30 pm

UNM English Department Colloquium presents

 

Jonathan Davis-Secord

Assistant Professor

UNM Department of English Language & Literature

Medieval Studies Program

Davis-Secord will present a portion of his nearly-complete monograph – Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature, which explores compound words––nearly ubiquitous but often neglected elements of early English literature––as the most potent and culturally resonant linguistic tools available in Old English.

Davis-Secord is an Anglo-Saxonist, studying the literature and languages of Anglo-Saxon England (c. 450–1100 CE), which include Old English, Latin, and Old Norse. He received his Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2008 and then taught at the University of Texas at Arlington until taking his position at UNM in 2012. 

Please Join Us

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

12:30 p.m.

English Department Library

Humanities Building, Room 324

Hildegard of Bingen Celebration (March 25, 6:30, SUB Ballroom B)

The Medieval Studies Student Association in partnership with the Feminist Research Institute invites you to attend a night of celebration for the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179).

This remarkable woman produced numerous theological and visionary works, as well as medical treatises and musical compositions. Hildegard's life and works have seen an increase in both academic and popular attention as indicated by recent published biographies, recordings of her music, and the 2011 film Vision. All events during this program are free and open to the public. The program is as follows:

Monday, March 25th (SUB Ballroom B)

6:30 PM
Wardene Crowley, "The Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen: Cosmic Tree, Cosmic Healing, and Cosmic Symphony"
Anita Obermeier, "Hildegard of Bingen's Gemstone Medicine"

7:30 PM
Reception

8:00 PM
Cantores Festivi, Music of Hildegard and Contemporaries



Tuesday, March 26th (Humanities 108)

7:00 PM
Movie Presentation - Vision: From the Life of Hildegard of Bingen (2011)
Limited Seating, Please RSVP to mssa@unm.edu
Please join us for an evening of discussion, music, and reflection.

Colloquium this Friday at 2

A reminder: Annarose Fitzgerald, PhD Candidate in English, will be workshopping her paper, "From a Rose to a Sea-Shell: Yeats, the Occult, and Modernizing Belief in the Symbol" this Friday at 2 pm in the dept. lounge.

Please read the paper in advance and come prepared to discuss! Hope to see many of you there.

Department Colloquium: Kathleen Washburn

The next English Department Colloquium will be Thursday, October 27, 12:30-1:45, in Humanities 108 (NOTE VENUE CHANGE). Dr. Kathleen Washburn will deliver her research presentation:

“Cherokee Soldier/Blackfoot Chief: Fake Indian Memoirs and the Contours of Native American literature.”

No advance readings for this presentation. See you there!

English Department Colloquium: Carmen Nocentelli

At the next English Department Colloquium Professor Carmen Nocentelli will present her research talk, ISLANDS OF LOVE: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND THE EURO-ASIAN ENCOUNTER. No advance reading for this presentation. See you there! Tuesday September 27, 12:30-1:45 , SUB Santa Ana A and B (note venue change).

English Department Colloquium: Aeron Hunt

Please join us for the first English Department Colloquium presentation for Fall 2011

Thursday Sept. 8, 12:30-1:45 in the English Department lounge.

Aeron Hunt will discuss her forthcoming article, "The Authoritative Medium: George Eliot, Ruin, and the Rationalized Market." For a copy of the paper in advance of the colloquium, please contact Aeron: aeron@unm.edu.

English Department Colloquium: Lynn Beene

Professor Lynn Beene will present "'Detective Poetry' or Poe-tics" from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in the English Department Lounge (HUM 235).  This will be the final EDC of the spring semester.

English Department Colloquium: Jerry Shea

Please join us on Thursday, March 31st from 12:00 - 1:00 in the department lounge for the English Department Colloquium featuring Professor Emeritus Jerry Shea. Dr Shea will be presenting "Stylistics and Tropes and Wonks, Oh My!"

You can get a taste of his wonks online here.