Spring 2016 CLCS Grant Recipients

Funded Spring 2016, all to be held during the 2015-2016 academic year, include these: 

• Medieval and Early Modern Graduate Student Pedagogy Group: Globalizing the Curriculum in Early British Literature, organized by Rob Wakeman.
• The Writing Center: Writing Fellows Pilot Training, spearheaded by Tom Earles.
• Historical Poetics Working Group, organized by Jason Rudy 10/15/2016.
• English Undergraduate Association: Writers Dead & Gone, organized by Elizabeth Caldera.
• Disability Studies Reading Group, organized by Ruth Osorio.
  • Criptiques
• Encountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph Bauer. 
• African Diasporas Reading Group #Diaspora: The Digital Odysseys of African Experiences in the 21st Century, organized by Agyeiwaa Asante and Chioma Dunkley. 
• Contemporary Fiction Reading Group, facilitated by Lee Konstantinou.
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kan (10/25/16)
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (11/29/16)
  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (1/31/17)
  • The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips (2/28/17)
  • Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (4/25/17)
• The Paper Shell Review, organized by Emily Tuttle.
• Conference: Women, Writing, Rhetoric, organized by Jessica Enoch.
• Graduate School Field Committee in Film Studies, organized by Elizabeth Papazian.
• Local Americanists Lecture Series, organized by Robert Levine. 
  • Judith Madera (10/28/16)
  • Erik Dussere (11/18/16)
  • Carter Mathes (2/7/17)
  • Erica Edwards (3/2/17)
  • Philip Gould (5/12/17)
• Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin Wang.
  • Mary Favret (2/25/17)
  • Jamison Kantor (5/6/17)
• Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Area Group. "Perspectives on Rhetoric and Writing,” organized by Scott Wible.
• Writers Here & Now 2016-2017, organized by Lindsay Bernal.
  • Álvaro Enrigue and Patrick Phillips (9/28/16)
  • Lauren Acampora and Ocean Vuong (10/26/16)
  • Rita Zoey Chin and Hayes Davis (11/30/16)
  • Alexander Chee and Eliza Griswold (2/1/17)
  • Lily King and Natasha Sajé (3/1/17)
  • Elizabeth Arnold, Howard Norman and Joshua Weiner (4/5/17)
• Transatlantic Studies Group: Transatlantic Lecture Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith & Jason Rudy. 
  • 2 events, one to coincide with “Historical Poetics” on or near 10/15/2016.
• Eighteenth-Century Reading Group, organized by Laura Rosenthal.
  • 3 speakers, one in fall & two in spring.
• Medieval & Renaissance Area Group: Marshall Grossman Lecture Series AY 2016-2017, Kimberly Coles.
  • Melissa Sanchez (12/1/17)
  • Timothy Harrison (3/28/17)
  • Elizabeth Scala (5/4/17)