Speaker Series

Winter 2019

All talks will take place in McCain 1198, 3:45-5ish pm, to be followed by a wine and cheese reception in the adjoining lounge.

January 11^th
Creative Writing Readings: Carole Langille, Charlotte Mendel, Donna Morrissey, & Cooper Lee Bombardier

January 18^th  
Kathy Cawsey, "Piping and Yodelling: Birdsong in the Owl and the Nightingale and The Parlement of Foules"

January 25^th  
Holly Morgan, “Gender, Identity, Diaspora”

February 8^th  
Erin Wunker, “Living with Ghosts: Sue Goyette’s Poethics of Care”

March 1^st  
Laura Bohnert & Kala Hirtle, "Two Storms, One Trauma: Analyzing the Ghosts of Consciousness inThe Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series)."

March 8^th  
Deborah Stiles, “Wailing...and Whaling? Scotland, Ireland, and Murder in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”

March 15^th  
Tom Ue, “Narrative Twists and Ethical Turns in The Hound of the Baskervilles”

March 29^th 
Marjorie Stone, "How Shall I Drug Thee?" Literature, Opiates, and Pharma in the 19th and 21st Centuries."