Announcing Spring 2009 Critical Theory Colloquium

Announcement that the Graduate Theory Certificate’s Spring 2009 colloquium will feature work by students across the College of Arts & Humanities who are pursuing the Certificate.

The essays being presented will be made available two weeks prior to each colloquium meeting date, by request to Kandice Chuh at kchuh@umd.eduThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  The supplemental readings for each colloquium meeting will shortly be available on the Theory Colloquium website, http://www.englweb.umd.edu/englfac/KChuh/798B.html.  The Spring 09 colloquium schedule is below.

The colloquium is part of the Graduate Theory Certificate Program, information about which may be found at http://www.english.umd.edu/grad-degree-/certificate-programs/grad-degree-certif-ct.  The colloquium is open to the University of Maryland community regardless of formal registration.  Please contact Kandice Chuh at kchuh@umd.eduThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with questions or for further information.

Friday, 13 February, 3-5pm, 3109 Susquehanna Hall

Chris Brown, doctoral student in English, presenting "The Incommensurability of Justice: Law and the African American Literary Tradition."

Supplemental readings: 1) “Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory,” by Dorothy J. Hale ELH 61, 2(Summer 1994): 445-471; and 2) “Underground Notes: Dostoevsky, Bakhtin, and the African American Confessional Novel,” by Dale Peterson.  Bakhtin and the Nation, edited by Barry A. Brown et al.  (Bucknell UP, 2003), 31-46;

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Christy DeSanctis, doctoral student in English, presenting “Negotiating Loss in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars.”

Supplemental readings: 1) “Cruel Optimism: on Marx, Loss and the Senses,” by Lauren Berlant new formations 63 (Winter 2007/08): 33-51; and 2) selections from Anne Cheng’s Melancholy of Race.

 
Friday, 13 March, 3-5pm, 3109 Susquehanna Hall

Henrike Lehnguth, doctoral candidate in American Studies, presenting “Sleepers, Informants, and the Everyday: Theorizing Terror and Ambiguity in Benjamin Heisenberg’s Schlaefer.” 

Supplemental readings: 1) “The surveillant assemblage,” by Kevin Haggerty and Richard Ericson.  British Journal of Sociology, 51, 4(December 2000): 605-622; and 2) “Looking into the future: surveillance, globalization and the totalitarian potential,” by Maria Los. 

Friday, 10 April, 3-5pm, 3109 Susquehanna Hall

Jennifer Wellman, doctoral candidate in English, presenting “Bernard, the Storyteller, the Demands of Emplotment, and Resistance to Story in Woolf’s The Waves.”

Supplemental readings: 1) “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact,” by Hayden White.  Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames, ed. Brian Richardson (OSU Press, 1974/2002, 191-210); and 2) Excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (Harcourt, Brace, Jonavich, 1931/1959).

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Ana Perez, doctoral student in Women’s Studies, presenting “Mixed-Race Mestizos? The limits and possibilities of a Critical Mestizaje.”

Supplemental reading: “Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities,” by Marisol de la Cadena.  J. Lat. Amer. Stud. 37(2005): 259-284.

Friday, 24 April, 3-5pm, 3109 Susquehanna Hall

James Goodwin, doctoral candidate in English, presenting "Reciprocal Superiority in J. S. Mill's The Subjection of Women."

Supplemental reading: J.S. Mill's "The Subjection of Women" (1869).

Friday, 8 May, 3-5pm, 3109 Susquehanna Hall

Maria Velazquez, doctoral student in American Studies, whose presentation details are TBA.