The Department of English brings you a seventh public lecture by Terry Eagleton, Excellence in English Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ulster Altruism: Francis Hutcheson and William Hazlitt
2:00 pm
Location TBD
Sarah McNamer is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Georgetown University. Her primary interest is in the relation between literature and the history of emotion.
Oct 3: Chris Chapman: On Ezra Pound's Quia Pauper Amavi
The Poetry & Poetics Group returns in the fall and we have exciting plans in store. Our aim is for meetings to be lively, structured, and regular, and to that end we’ve come up with a format that is equal parts reading group and traditional workshop. Each of the five scheduled sessions will feature a speaker giving a targeted and fairly brief (not more than 20 minute) presentation centered in most cases on a book of poems, which will be followed by a group-wide conversation. We hope to obtain funds from ISLA that will allow us to provide all participants with copies of the books under discussion.…
Professor Norman MacLeod will speak on the topic "Mass Extinctions in the Geological Record: Causes and Consequences." Professor MacLeod is Keeper of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of London (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/paleonet/MacLeod/…
Professor Norman MacLeod will speak on the topic "Geometric Ecomorphology: Shape Analysis, Taxonomy, Ecology, and the Modeling of Morphological Adaptation." Professor MacLeod is Keeper of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of London (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/paleonet/MacLeod/…
John Wilkinson will first offer us a lecture he delivered at Cambridge University over the summer entitled “Repeatable Evanescence,” and then, after a break with wine and cheese and chatter, a reading from his poetry.
Faculty and grad students are invited to join Professor Norman MacLeod for a brown bag discussion on the topic "Images, Totems, Types, and Memes: Perspectives on an Iconological Mimetics." Professor MacLeod is Keeper of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of London.
An Undergraduate Lecture by the English Department
presented by Terry Eagleton, Excellence in English Distinguished Visiting Professor
Happy Endings in the English Novel
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:30 pm
136 DeBartolo Hall
Terry Eagleton is a British literary theorist widely regarded as Britain’s most influential living literary critic. Author of over 40 books primarily in literary criticism and theory, he resides at Notre Dame three weeks each semester through Spring 2014. Each semester he gives a lecture geared towards undergraduates. This is his fifth undergraduate lecture at Notre Dame.…
The Americanist Area Group is open to faculty and students from any department or discipline who have an interest in American literature and culture. Meetings are informal and are typically led by one or more members, who discuss recent and important developments in the field. For our October 10 meeting, Joel Duncan, Dallin Lewis, and Erik Larsen will present on aspects of "origin" in relation to the US, especially via Sacvan Bercovitch's Puritan Origins of the American Self…
Laura Mullen is the author of six books: The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject and Dark Archive (University of California Press, 2011), The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, and she has been awarded a Board of Regents ATLAS grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and is a frequent visitor at the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work has been widely anthologized and is included in American Hybrid…
Oct 24: Ailbhe Darcy & Nathaniel Myers: On Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel
The Poetry & Poetics Group returns in the fall and we have exciting plans in store. Our aim is for meetings to be lively, structured, and regular, and to that end we’ve come up with a format that is equal parts reading group and traditional workshop. Each of the five scheduled sessions will feature a speaker giving a targeted and fairly brief (not more than 20 minute) presentation centered in most cases on a book of poems, which will be followed by a group-wide conversation. We hope to obtain funds from ISLA that will allow us to provide all participants with copies of the books under discussion.…
Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic, and fragmentary narratives, often called postmodern.
Thinking about declaring a concentration in Creative Writing? Not sure how to go about it? The English Department's Creative Writing Program is hosting an Open House on Thursday, October 25 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Great Hall (O’Shaugnessy).
Joseph Slaughter, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, will deliver the 2012-13 Annual Joseph M. Duffy Lecture on the topic "The Will to Narrative: Untelling Stories and the Literatures of Counterinsurgency."
Nov 14: Yasmin Solomonescu: "The 'Passion of Metre' in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads"
The Poetry & Poetics Group returns in the fall and we have exciting plans in store. Our aim is for meetings to be lively, structured, and regular, and to that end we’ve come up with a format that is equal parts reading group and traditional workshop. Each of the five scheduled sessions will feature a speaker giving a targeted and fairly brief (not more than 20 minute) presentation centered in most cases on a book of poems, which will be followed by a group-wide conversation. We hope to obtain funds from ISLA that will allow us to provide all participants with copies of the books under discussion.…
Ted Underwood, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois, will speak on "Learning What We Don't Know About Literary History"
Chaucerians, past, present, and future, please join the Chaucer Reading Group for Chaucerfest 2012!
This year's readings will be drawn from The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Tale of Sir Thopas…
Lecture: “Was Samuel Beckett a Mystic?” by Declan Kiberd, Donald & Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies
All are invited to the fourth session of the Mellon-ISLA Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop on “New Media: From the Middle Ages to the Digital Age,” featuring the following speakers:
Emily Ransom (Department of English): “The Polemical Press: Thomas More, Brixius, and Early Print Rivalry”
Richard Oosterhoff…