Tag: Literature

You are warmly invited to a Zoom book launch for Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration (CUP, 2023) edited by Claire Hansen, Jackie Manuel and Liam Semler. The launch will be on Friday 24 March and run for 60 minutes on Zoom only. It will be at 9am and repeated at 7pm (both …

3 May | Woolley S226 Room and Zoom Frances Di Lauro TBA Contact: Liam Semler (liam.semler@sydney.edu.au)

Thursday 16 March, 3-4.30pm | Woolley S226 Room only Scott Herring, ‘Experimental Aging and U.S. Modernisms’  This talk rehearses core arguments from my recent book, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life (Columbia University Press, 2022). Canvassing artists, performers, and writers such as Mabel Hampton, Indra B. Tamang, and Tillie Olsen, my research illuminates how …

3 May | Woolley S226 Room and Zoom Nienke Boer, ‘The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World’ This talk provides a brief introduction to and survey of my book, The Briny South, which examines the legal, autobiographical, and fictional narratives produced in the wake of three forms of imperial involuntary or …

19 April | Woolley S226 Room and Zoom Doug Battersby, ‘Cardiac Realism: The Affective Life of the Modern Novel’ This paper examines a tradition of British novelists—Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, May Sinclair, and D. H. Lawrence—who turn to the heart to convey emphatically embodied understandings of emotion and subjectivity. Animated by a realist commitment to …

5 April | Zoom only Harilaos Stecopolous, ‘Reconsidering Transnational Literary Studies: US Literature in the Diplomatic Frame’  This presentation draws on Professor Harilaos Stecopoulos’ recent book Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy (Oxford, 2022), which reconsiders transnational literary studies in light of the struggle between US cultural diplomacy and the global …