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The Faculty Colloquium offers faculty an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with colleagues from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.
Academic Year 2012-2013
Fall 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 4-5 p.m. (reception begins at 3:30)
James Rosenheim | Professor, Department of History
"The Financial Records and Memoranda of Edmund Herbert, 1708-1733"
North Room, University Club, Rudder Tower
Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Angela Pulley-Hudson | Assistant Professor, Department of History
"'Real Native Genius': Okah Tubbee, Laah Ceil, and the Limits of Antebellum Indianness"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Judith Hamera | Professor, Department of Performance Studies
"'Never Can Say Goodbye': Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Trouble with Ruins"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Federica Ciccolella | Professor, Department of International Studies
"When East Meets West: Learning Greek in Venetian Crete"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Anne Morey | Associate Professor, Department of English
"'The Gland School': Gertrude Atherton and the Two Black Oxen"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Joseph Jewell | Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
"Other People's Children: Social Mothering, Schools, and Racialized Class Boundaries in Late-Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Academic Year 2011-2012
Fall 2011
14 September 2011
Melanie Hawthorne | Professor, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures
“36 Views of Renée Vivien”
28 September 2011
David Donkor | Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies and Africana Studies
“‘Let Me Play My Play’: Creative Autonomy, Corporate Citizenship and the Myth of the Progressive State in Ghanaian Popular Theatre”
12 October 2011
Vanita Reddy | Assistant Professor, Department of English
“Afro-Asian Diasporic Intimacies in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala”
26 October 2011, 4-5 p.m.
Kirsten Pullen | Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies
“Selling Samba: Carmen Miranda and the Commercialization of Brazilian Music”
9 November 2011
Gabriela Campagnol | Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture
“Reuse of Industrial Heritage in Brazil: Redefining the Space of Sugar Production”
30 November 2011
Lucia Hodgson| Assistant Professor, Department of English
“American Romantic Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery, 1760s to 1830s”
Spring 2012
25 January 2012
Nancy Warren | Professor and Head, Department of English
“Reading Chaucer in English Nunneries, c.1450-c.1600”
8 February 2012
Stefanie Harris | Associate Professor, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures
“Alexander Kluge: Defining Media”
29 February 2012
Alberto Moreiras | Professor and Head, Department of Hispanic Studies
“Spinoza's Dream and the Demotic Principle”
21 March 2012
Sally Robinson | Associate Professor, Department of English
“Fantasies of Authenticity: Gender and Anti-Consumerism”
4 April 2012
N. Fadeke Castor | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Africana Studies Program
“Sacred Imaginaries: Performance and the Decolonization of Blackness”
18 April 2012
Maria Irene Moyna | Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies
“Voseo/tuteo in Uruguayan Popular Songs from 1960 to 2010”
Academic Year 2010-2011
Spring 2011
23 March 2011
Britt Mize | Assistant Professor, Department of English
“The Women in Judas Iscariot's Life: Where Did They Come From?”
9 March 2011
Rudy Dunlap| Assistant Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences
"Recreating Culture: Slow Food as a Leisure Movement"
23 February 2011
Cara Wallis| Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
"The Grass-Mud Horse, the Green Dam Girl, and the Gendering of China's Online Censorship Protest Culture"
26 January 2011
Shona Jackson| Assistant Professor, Department of English
"Labor and Subjectivity in the Caribbean"
6 April 2011
Nandini Bhattacharya | Professor, Department of English
"Structure, Event and Liminality in Recent Hindi Films"
20 April 2011
David Chroust| Associate Professor, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
"Unknown Bohemia: New yorské listy and Czech New York, 1874-1966"
Fall 2010
8 September 2010
Elisabeth Ellis| Political Science
"Extinction and Democracy"
29 September 2010
Jayson Beaster-Jones| Performance Studies
"It Takes a Little Lawsuit: Music and Intellectual Property in Contemporary India"
13 October 2010
Amy Earhart| English
"What's In and What's Out? Rethinking Content Acquisition in Digital Literary Studies"
27 October 2010
Hiroshi Ono | Sociology
"Career Mobility in the Japanese Financial Sector"
10 November 2010
Alain Lawo-Sukam | Hispanic Studies and Africana Studies
"The Surge of Afro-Hispanic Literature in Non-Hispanic African Countries: The Case of Cameroon"
Academic Year 2009-2010
Spring 2010
27 January 2010
Rola el-Husseini| Bush School
"Hezbollah and the Axis of Refusal"
10 February 2010
Kevin Glowacki| Architecture
"Peripatos and Pelargikon: The Topography of Cult on the Slopes of the Acropolis"
24 February 2010
Nandini Bhattacharya| English
"Nation Misplaced: Film, Time Space in South Asian Decolonization"
10 March 2010
Christian Brannstrom | Geography
"Contested Ideas for Irrigated Agriculture in Early-Twentieth-Century South Texas"
7 April 2010
Margaret Woosnam | Architecture
"The Forgotten Architect: Exploring and Addressing Challenges Females Face in Architectural Practices and Faculty Positions"
Fall 2009
9 September 2009
Claudia Nelson| English
"The Child-Man, the Victorian Family, and Social Threat"
23 September 2009
Claire Katz| Philosophy
"Levinas and the 'Crisis of Humanism'"
7 October 2009
Terry Hoagwood | English
"Love, Work, Law, and Counsellor at Law"
4 November 2009
Dan Humphrey | Women's and Gender Studies and Film Studies
"In and Out Or: The Ambiguity of the Jewel"
2 December 2009
Benjamin McMyler | Philosophy
"The Epistemic Significance of Address"
Academic Year 2008-2009
Spring 2009
28 January 2009
Kristi Sweet| Philosophy
"Life as Transformation: Kant's Philosophy of Art and Freedom"
11 February 2009
Tasha Dubriwny| Communication and Women's Studies
"Subverting and Supporting Scientific Authority: Breast Cancer Activists and the Early Detection Controversy"
25 February 2009
Kimberly Brown| English
"'Black Like Whom?': Blackface as Catharsis and Revolution in Grace Halsell's Soul Sister (1969)"
11 March 2009
Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss| History
"Life as a Colonial Bureaucrat: Pierre Clément Laussat and the French Atlantic, 1802-1823"
25 March 2009
Ashley Currier | Sociology and Women's Studies
"African Feminisms and Same-Sex Sexualities"
8 April 2009
Neha Vora | Anthropology
"Becoming South Asian in Dubai: Globalized Private Education and the Production of Neoliberal Subjects"
22 April 2009
Kirsten Pullen | Performance Studies
"New Performances, New Audiences: How the Internet Challenges Performance Studies"
Fall 2008
3 September 2008
Paul Parrish| English
"Transforming Milton"
17 Septembe 2008
Irene Price| Philosophy
"Nice and Thin: Moralizing Our Appetites"
1 October 2008
Eduardo Urbina| Hispanic Studies
"Visual Readings: Textual Iconography and Digital Archive of Don Quixote"
15 October 2008
Randall S. Sumpter | Communication
"Core Knowledge: Early Reporting Textbooks and the Formation of Journalism's Professional Identity"
29 October 2008
Carlos K. Blanton | History
"The Citizenship Sacrifice: Mexican Americans, the Saunders-Leonard Report, and the Politics of Immigration, 1951–1952"
12 November 2008
Julia Blackwelder | History
"Machine-Made Men: Crafting Masculinities at General Electric, 1900-1950"
Academic Year 2007-2008
Spring 2008
23 January 2008
Linda Radzik| Philosophy
"Changing the Past"
6 February 2008
Jimmie Killingsworth | English
"The Trope of an Island: Science and Literature, Nature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing"
20 February 2008
Juan Alonzo | English
"Postmodern Corridos: Mexican American Folklore in the 21st Century"
5 March 2008
Sabine Arnaud| European and Classical Languages and Cultures
"Narratives of Hysteria and the Shaping of Eighteenth Century Medicine as a Discipline"
19 March 2008
David Donkor| Performance Studies
"Little Ananse/Big Ananse: Performing the Trickster Ethos in a Circum-Atlantic Cultural Economy"
2 April 2008
Margaret Ezell| English
"Elizabeth Isham and the Technologies of Memory"
16 April 2008
Hoi-eun Kim | History
"Cure for Empire: Seirōgan and a Cultural History of Pharmaceutical Medicine in Modern Japan, 1905-1945"
Fall 2007
5 September 2007
Cary J. Nederman | Political Science
"Machiavelli's Biblical Rhetoric"
19 September 2007
Harriette Andreadis | English
"The Early Modern Afterlife of Ovidian Erotics: Dryden's Heroides"
3 October 2007
Nancy Klein | Architecture
"The Construction of Identity and 'Architectural History' on the Acropolis of Athens"
17 October 2007
Joan Wolf | Women's Studies Program
"The Maternal-Industrial Complex: Risk, Breastfeeding, and Motherhood in America"
31 October 2007
Larry Mitchell | English
"Hemingway and Boxing: Reflections in a Mirror"
14 November 2007
Patricia Phillippy | English
"Women in Document and Monument in Early Modern England"
28 November 2007
Tazim Jamal | Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Chris Menzel | Philosophy
Michael Hand | Philosophy
"Dark Tourism"
Academic Year 2006-2007
Spring 2007
31 January 2007
Brett Cooke | European and Classical Languages and Cultures
"Natural Psychology and the Evolution of Russian Literature."
14 February 2007
Stephanie Kerschbaum | English
"Writing and the Challenges of Identity: Negotiating Authority During Small Group Peer Review."
28 February 2007
Kimberly Brown |English
'''Dat’s Love': Black Female Sexual Agency and Filmic Iterations of the 'Carmen' Figure."
7 March 2007
Alston Thoms | Anthropology
"Persistent Ancient Foodways: A Regional Study at Native Americas' Cultural Crossroads in Texas."
28 March 2007
Jane Flaherty | History
"'Sparing the Necessities of Life:' The English Origins of Civil War Taxation."
11 April 2007
Shona Jackson | English
"Being Creole, Becoming Native: The Quiet Dispossessions of a Ventriloquist."
25 April 2007
Elizabeth H. Ho | English
"'South of Nowhere:' Border Politics and Whiteness in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace."
Fall 2006
6 September 2006
Judith Hamera | Performance Studies
"Reefer Madness: Collecting, Conservation and Community Among Reef Aquarium Enthusiasts."
20 September 2006
Colleen Murphy | Philosophy
"Political Reconciliation and Trust."
4 October 2006
Andrew Kirkendall | History
"Paulo Freire and the Politics of Literacy in a Cold War World."
18 October 2006
Terence Hoagwood | English
"The Simulation of Adaptation: Literature and Film."
1 November 2006
Robert Shandley| European and Classical Languages and Cultures
"The American Position: Europe, Marriage, and Sexuality in the Runaway Romance."
15 November 2006
Dror Goldberg | Economics
"The Beginnings of Modern Currency."
29 November 2006
Heidi Campbell | Communication
"Kosher Cell Phones & a Halal Internet?: A Study of Religious Engagement with New Media."
2005-2006 Academic Year
Spring 2006
25 January 2006
Hilaire Kallendorf | Hispanic Studies
"Sin and Sensibility: Moral Economies of Early Modern Spain."
10 February 2006
Visiting Fellow Barbie Zelizer | University of Pennsylvania
"Death in Wartime: Photographs and the 'Other War' in Afghanistan"
15 February 2006
Paul Almeida | Sociology
"Social Movement Unionism, Social Movement Partyism and Policy Outcomes."
1 March, 2006
Kathryn Woodard | Performance Studies
"Turkish Cultural Reforms and the Early Piano Works of Ahmed Adnan Saygun."
8 March 2006
Suzanne Eckert | Anthropology
"The Ritual Importance of Birds in 14th Century Central New Mexico."
22 March 2006
Deborah Carlson| Anthropology and European and Classical Languages and Cultures
"The Non-Economic Use of Coinage in the Ancient Mediterranean."
5 April 2006
Robert Griffin | English
"Anonymity and the Public Sphere."
19 April 2006
Diego von Vacano | Political Science
"Race,Slavery and Republicanism: Latin American Political Thought and the Limits of Citizenship."
Fall 2005
7 September 2005
Mary Ann O'Farrell | English
"Missing Jane Austen: Henry James Considers the Old Maid."
21 September 2005
John Lenihan | History
"Laughing at the Cold War: Hollywood Comedies, 1947-1960,"
5 October 2005
Eric Rothenbuhler | Communication
"Studies of Symbolic Objects in Media Worlds.”
19 October 2005
Douglas Brooks | English
"Is the Fundament a Graver: The Beginning of the End in Venus and Adonis."
2 November 2005
Leon Couch| Performance Studies
"The Affections, Musical-Rhetorical Figures, and North-German Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music."
16 November 2005
Leah DeVun | History
"Gender, Generation, and the Hermaphroditic Christ: Alchemy and Medicine in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance."
30 November 2005
Victoria Rosner | English
"Tsitsi Dangarembga and Doris Lessing's Postcolonial Literary Legacies."
Academic Year 2004-2005
Spring 2005
26 January 2005
Gregor Kalas | Architecture
"Icons and Identity: Defending Images and Elite Status in 8th-Century Rome."
9 February 2005
Sylvia Hoffert | History
"Money, Power, Philanthropy, and Reform: A Tale of Four Women."
23 February 2005
Patrick Burkart| Communication
"The Production of Scarcity in Digital Media Markets."
24 February 2005
Visiting Fellow Philip Auslander| Georgia Institute of Technology
"Musical Personae: Beyond Textual Models in the Music as Performance Debate."
9 March 2005
Steven Smith | Cushing Library
"Technology in the Pursuit of Literature: Optical Collation and the 'Mechanization' of Bibliographical and Textual Theory."
23 March 2005
Kimberly Brown | English
"'The New Millennium Minstrel Show': Blackface Performance and Contemporary African American Comedy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled."
6 April 2005
Joseph Jewell | Sociology
"Race, Social Reform, and Middle Class Formation in Three Cities."
20 April 2005
Visiting Fellow Ann Bermingham| University of California, Santa Barbara
20 April 2005
Pat Phillippy | English
"Women in Document and Monumen.t"
Fall 2004
8 September 2004
Margaret J.M. Ezell | English
"Arise Evans and the Technology of Prophecy."
22 September 2004
Donnalee Dox| Performance Studies
"Dancing Around Orientalism."
6 October 2004
Douglas Brooks| English
"Inky Kin: Reading in the Age of Gutenberg Paternity."
20 October 2004
David Myers| English
"Canonizing the Holocaust."
3 November 2004
Dennis Berthold | English
"The Annotated Alice: A Student Edition of Alice Cary's Clovernook (1852)."
17 November 2004
Visiting Fellow Lynn Higgins | Dartmouth College
"Pagnol and the Paradoxes of Frenchness."
1 December 2004
Carlos Blanton| History
"Historical Imagination and the Mexican American 'Faustian Pact': Dr. George I. Sánchez, Civil Rights, and the Whiteness Debate, 1941—1959."
15 September 2004
Elias Dominguez-Barajas
"Examining the Socio-Cognitive Complexities of Proverb Use: Examples from a Mexican Social Network."
21 October 2004
Joanne Gilbert | Alma College
"Last Laughs: Female Comics and the Performance of Power."
1 December 2004
Susan Patterson
"The Spectacle of Early American Women's Drama."
Academic Year 2003-2004
Spring 2004
4 February 2004
Lisa Gilman | Performance Studies
"Malawian Dance at the Intersection of Politics and Tradition"
25 February 2004
Cary Nederman| Political Science
"The Spirit of Capitalism and the Medieval Orgins of Economic Nationalism"
3 March 2004
Eduardo Urbina | Modern and Classical Language
"Don Quixote Variorum (1605-2005): Textual Studies in the Digital Age"
24 March 2004
David McWhirter | English
"Henry James and the Languages of Modernity"
7 April 2004
Anne Morey | English
"Customers for Christ"
21 April 2004
Joseph Litvak | Visiting Fellow
28 April 2004
Aihwa Ong | Visiting Fellow
Fall 2003
10 September 2003
Giovanna Del Negro | English
Harris Berger | Department of Performance Studies
"Identity Reconsidered."
24 September 2003
John Alexander | Architecture
"Federico Borromeo al Collegio di Pavia: Studente e patrono" ("Federico Borromeo at the Collegio in Pavia: Student and Patron").
8 October 2003
John Fenn| Performance Studies
"Now it Has a Name: Americana and the Creation of Genre.”"
22 October 2003
Susan Egenolf| English
"Barbarians, Turn-Coats, Orangemen and Rebels: Marking Difference in Narratives of The 1798 Irish Rebellion."
5 November 2003
Robert Shandley | Modern and Classical Languages
"On the Filmic History of Destruction."
19 November 2003
Brenda Bethman| Women’s Center
"A Jouissance Beyond the Phallus? Elfriede Jelinek's 'Lust', Pornography, and Female Sexuality."
3 December 2003
Shelley Wachsmann | Anthropology
"In Search of Darius’ 492 BC Fleet.”"
Academic Year 2002-2003
Spring 2003
19 February 2003
Sally Robinson | English
"The Real Deal: Consumer Culture, Gender, and Authenticity in Fight Club."
19 March 2003
Melanie Hawthorne | Modern and Classical Languages
"A Problem in Biography: Gisele d'Estoc and the Non-Existent Subject."
21 April 2003
Lisa Ellis| Political Science
"New Democratic Theory."
Fall 2002
4 September 2002
Larry Reynolds | English
"Hawthorne, Slavery, and the Question of Moral Responsibility."
25 September 2002
Gary Varner | Philosophy
"Harey Animals."
6 November 2002
Marian Eide | English
"Witnessing, Trophy Hunting, & World War I Trench Poetry"
Academic Year 2001-2002
Spring 2002
23 January 2002
Douglas Brooks | English
"'I'll mar the young clerk's pen': Sodomitical Technologies, Masculinity, and Paternity in The Merchant of Venice."
13 February 2002
Lora Wildenthal | History
"The Origins of the West German Human Rights Movement."
27 March 2002
Ralph Schoolcraft | Modern and Classical Languages
"Literary Gaullism."
24 April 2002
Siraj Ahmed| English
"'Hoard of Other Mens Goods': Piracy, Empire, Civil Society."
Fall 2001
5 September 2001
Carol Higham | History
"To Eat or Be Eaten: Historical Perspective on Cannibalism."
26 September 2001
Antonio La Pastina | Communication
"Creating Brazil in the US Imaginary: The Geography of Difference."
10 October 2001
Sarah Gatson| Sociology
"Come Along With Me: Re-Making the Local and the Locale from the Perspective of Internet Community"
7 November 2001
Dennis Berthold | English
"American Risorgimento: Italy in the Antebellum American Imagination."
28 November 2001
Richard J. Golsan | Modern and Classical Languages
"Debating History and Memory in France in the 1990s: The Livre noir du communisme Controversy."
Academic Year 2000-2001
Spring 2001
21 February 2001
Mary Bucholtz | English
"We're Through Being Cool: Nerds and the Rejection of Youth Culture."
21 March 2001
James Rosenheim | History
"Singular Subjects: Unmarried Men in England, 1500-2000."
18 April 2001
Di Wang | History
"'Doctor Tea': Teahouse Workers in Republican Chengdu."
Fall 2000
13 September 2000
Linda Radzik | Philosophy
"Collective Responsibilities and Duties to Respond."
11 October 2000
Kimberly Brown | English
"'She Dreams a World': The Decolonized Text and the New World Order, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters."
15 November 2000
Brian Imhoff| Modern and Classical Languages
"Editing Unpublished Colonial Spanish Texts: Implications for Reading History."
Academic Year 1999-2000
Spring 2000
9 February 2000
Cynthia Bouton | History
"Reordering Disorder: Images of the Buzancais Riot of 1847."
23 February 2000
Jerome Loving | English
"Theodore Drieser's Women"
8 March 2000
Armando Alonzo | History
"Exploring Themes in New Borderlands History: Texas and Mexico, 1700-1900."
22 March 2000
Barbara Sharf| Communication
"Out of the Closet and Into the Legislature: The Impact of Communicating Breast Cancer Narratives on Health Policy."
12 April 2000
Robert Resch | History
"Running on Empty: Lacan, Zizek and the Theory of the Subject."
26 April 2000
Guadalupe Cortina | Modern and Classical Languages
"Deception and Reality: Latino/as Meeting Their Image in the U.S. and Spanish Media."
Fall 1999
8 September 1999
Clint Machan | English
"Tennyson's Arthur and Manly Codes of Behavior."
22 September 1999
Alan Houtchens | Performance Studies
"Vavel or Havel: An Argument against Modernizing the Libretto of Dvorak's Vanda."
6 October 1999
Timothy Mitchell| Modern and Classical Languages
"Mexican Popular Music: The Art of Passional Delusion."
20 October 1999
Victoria Rosner| English
"Have You Seen This Child?: Carolyn K. Steedman and the Writing of Fantasy Motherhood."
3 November 1999
Michael Hand| Philosophy
"Reconstruction of African Folk Ethics."
17 November 1999
Stephen Miller| Modern and Classical Languages
"Early Historical Dramas of Shakespeare and Early Historical Fictions of Perez-Galdos."
1 December 1999
Michael Greenwald | Theater Arts Program
"Mexican Theatrical Performance."