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The Poetics of Collecting

Organizer: Guangchen Chen

To collect and to narrate are two common human instincts. But they are often at odds with each other. On the one hand, we desire to tell a story out of a collection of things; or rather, a collection... more

Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir I. Otaño Gracia

In the essay ‘Solidarity and the medieval invention of race’ Seeta Chaganti reminds us that Medievalists have access to archival and historical records, and we can examine these archives carefully in... more

Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizer: Michelle Kelly

From the current moment in which calls to decolonize literary studies prevail, we look back to the eras of political decolonization, and the changes they catalysed in literary cultures and... more

Time, Memory, and the Western

Organizer: Jordan Savage

Time and Memory in the Western   "Wade: Mind telling me where we're going? Evans: No, I don't mind telling you. We're going to Contention City. We're   going   wait in a... more

Inventions of the Baroque

Organizer: Alex Verdolini

“The Baroque was seen as being restricted to one genre (architecture), or to an increasingly restrictive determination of periods and places, or yet again to a radical disavowal: the Baroque never... more

Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

Organizer: J. Dillon Brown

Scholars have frequently named the Caribbean as the crucible of what we now understand as the modern, such that if one understands modernism, in broad terms, as an aesthetic response to modernity,... more

Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizer: George Handley

Secular criticism, as Edward Said defined it, has been central to the study of postcolonial literature. It is also clear, however, that traditionally secularist readings of postcolonial literature... more

Moving Past Lovecraft: New Visions of the Weird

Organizer: Alexander Sell

Academic discussions of weird fiction today are dominated by HP Lovecraft. This makes some sense, considering he promoted the term and is perhaps the name most associated with it. Yet, the weird... more

History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizer: Zachary Hicks

How might renewed attention to the cultural production of the former Second World help us move past one of the defining impasses of literary studies after globalization: namely, the antinomy between... more

Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizer: Steven Maye

The poet’s voice has long been an elusive object in literary studies. It has been understood as both a biographical substrate and a commodity the poet has to manufacture or develop over time. It can... more

Translation and Autotheory

Organizer: Jan Steyn

While the long-established publishing convention of the translator’s note or afterword has asked translators to provide short critical reflections on their practice, there has been a boom over the... more

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