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New Books by English Faculty
Helena Maria Viramontes’ new novel is “a book that is upon you before you know it and once read cannot be shaken.” -Junot Díaz
“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen and write.”Pearl S. Buck

Events

Current English Scheduling of Events

Spring 2008

The No Radio Lounge Hour Reading Series
Jennifer Ray, Poetry; Jim Cecil, Fiction
Date & Time: February 8, Friday 7:00 p.m.
Location: No Radio Records, 312 East Seneca St.
“Defoe and the Written Constitution”
Bernadette Meyler, Associate Professor, Cornell Law School
Date & Time: February 13, Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Location: Goldwin Smith 258
Readings by
Mark Doty, Poet; Denis Johnson, Fiction writer, Paul Lisicky, Non-fiction Writer
Date & Time: February 15, Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Fiction Reading
Sarah Mkhonza, Fiction Writer and Ithaca City of Asylum Writer in Residence
Date & Time: February 28, Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
“Thinking Afro Futures: Epistemic Histories”
Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date & Time: March 6, Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
“Fictions of Dignity: Human Rights and the Postcolonial Novel”
Elizabeth Anker, Wake Forest University
Date & Time: March 11, Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
Coleridge and Campbell: Live at the Royal Institution!
Sarah Zimmerman, Fordham University
Date & Time: March 26, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading
J. Robert Lennon, Fiction Writer, Ernesto Quiñonez, Fiction Writer, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Poet
Date & Time: March 27, Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium
“Political Theological Tragedy? --Repetition, Exception, and Form in Shakespeare and Calderón”
Philip Lorenz, Cornell University English
Date & Time: POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 16
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
The No Radio Lounge Hour Reading Series
Dana Koster, Poetry; Jon Hickey, Fiction; Pelin Ariner, Poetry; George McCormick, Fiction
Date & Time: April 4, Friday 7:00 p.m.
Location: No Radio Records, 312 East Seneca St.
The Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture
“The Worlding of Early Modern Culture: Buchanan, Cervantes, Milton”
Roland Greene, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Date & Time: April 8, Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Reading by
Alison Bechdel, Graphic Novelist
Date & Time: April 10, Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Theory Reading Group Spring Conference
“The Substance of Thought: Critical and Pre-Critical”
Keynote speakers: Simon Critchley and Alberto Toscano
Date & Time: April 10-12, times TBA
Location: A.D. White House
The No Radio Lounge Hour Reading Series
Estella Gonzalez, Fiction; Helena Maria Viramontes, Fiction
Musical Stylings by J. Robert Lennnon aka Inverse Room
Date & Time: April 18, Friday 7:00 p.m.
Location: No Radio Records, 312 East Seneca St.
Research Colloquium
Theorizing the Vernacular: Imperial Beginnings to Global English
Papers by David Lloyd (USC) and Paula Blank (William and Mary)
Other participants will discuss pre-circulated papers.
For more info: E-mail Jenny Mann
Date & Time: April 18, “The Proverbial Lesbian: Etymology and Desire in Renaissance Studies,” lecture by Paula Blank, 4:30 p.m.
Location: A.D. White House
Date & Time: April 18, breakfast at 9:30 a.m., sessions begin at 10:00 a.m. “Time Passante: From Forensic to Interrogation Modernity,” lecture by David Lloyd, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Goldwin Smith 258
“Coming to Know in Pictures: The Epistemology of Rhetoric in the Renaissance”
Anselm Haverkamp, Professor of West European Literature, University of Vladrina, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany
Date & Time: April 24, Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
Location:Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading
Eavan Boland, Poet
Date & Time: Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
“Theo-Political Renaissance”
A one-day workshop exploring the role of Renaissance literature in the conceptualization of political theology, sovereignty, subjectivity, bio-politics, and international law.
Papers by Anselm Haverkamp (U of Vladrina), Jacques Lezra (NYU), Graham Hammill (Notre Dame), Anne Orford (U of Melbourne), Bernadette Meyler (CU Law School)
SCHEDULE
9:30 a.m. Coffee and Refreshments
10:00 a.m.
Philip Lorenz (Cornell University) Opening Remarks
Graham Hammill (Notre Dame)
“After Political Theology: Constituting Power and the Problem of the Subject”
Respondent: Jess Keiser (Cornell University)
Jacques Lezra (NYU)
“The Logic of Sovereignty: Distribution”
Respondent: Shilo McGiff (Cornell University)
12:00 p.m. Lunch Buffet, Pale Fire Lounge
1:30 p.m.
Anne Orford (U of Melbourne)
“Roman Law, the Godly Imperium and England’s New Worlds”
Respondent: Bernadette Meyler (Cornell University) Coffee Break
3:30 p.m.
Anselm Haverkamp (NYU and EU Viadrina)
“After Political Theology: Shakespeare’s Roman Plays”
Respondent: Douglas McQueen-Thomson (Cornell University) Closing Reception
For more info: E-mail Phil Lorenz
Date & Time: April 25, Friday
Location:English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
MFA Reading
Fiction and Poetry by graduating MFA students
(Tea Obreht, Jared Harel, Estella Gonzalez, Michaela Essl, Meredith Ramirez Talusan, Will Cordeiro, Alexi Zentner, Justin Robert Souza)
Date & Time: Sunday, May 4, 2:00 p.m.
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall