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.
Paper titles/topics will include:
Michael Dango - Taxonomy: Then And Now
Susan Gillman - Always Historicize
Claudia Stokes - Moralistic Criticism Revisited
Jennifer Greiman - The End of Dissensus; or, Aesthetics and Politics in an Age of Realism
Kinohi Nishikawa - Where the Story Ends