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Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures: Now Unfashionable

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center (1080 Literature, Culture, and Linguistics Building)
Date
Mar 7, 2025   9:45 am - 4:30 pm  
Contact
Aidan Watson-Morris
E-Mail
aidanjw2@illinois.edu
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Life of the Department

Now Unfashionable is a symposium that will be hosted in the Lucy Ellis Lounge in the Literature, Culture, and Linguistics Building (formerly FLB) on March 7. Invited panelists will address ostensibly outmoded methods of literary study in the field of American literary history. The event will be open to the public. Food and refreshments will be served. For more information, visit the website here.

Paper titles/topics will include:

  • Michael Dango - Taxonomy: Then And Now 
  • Susan Gillman - Always Always Historicize!
  • Jennifer Greiman - The End of Dissensus; or, Aesthetics and Politics in an Age of Realism
  • Claudia Stokes - Moralistic Criticism Revisited
  • Kinohi Nishikawa - A Self-Consuming Artifact: How Publication History Deepens Narrative Meaning
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