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 11th
Creative Writing Readings: Carole Langille, Charlotte Mendel, Donna Morrissey, & Cooper Lee Bombardier
January 18th
Kathy Cawsey, "Piping and Yodelling: Birdsong in the Owl and the Nightingale and The Parlement of Foules"
January 25th
Holly Morgan, “Gender, Identity, Diaspora”
February 8th
Erin Wunker, “Living with Ghosts: Sue Goyette’s Poethics of Care”
March 1st
Laura Bohnert & Kala Hirtle, "Two Storms, One Trauma: Analyzing the Ghosts of Consciousness inThe Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series)."
March 8th
Deborah Stiles, “Wailing...and Whaling? Scotland, Ireland, and Murder in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”
March 15th
Tom Ue, “Narrative Twists and Ethical Turns in The Hound of the Baskervilles”
March 22nd
Marjorie Stone, "Witness Narratives and the Hungry Forties: ‘The Cry of the Children’ and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Unpublished Hunger Ballad”