The Newberry Seminar in American Literature
Wednesday, 10/14, 5:30 PM CST, to be conducted via Zoom
Please consider attending the first meeting of this year's Newberry Seminar in American Literature, which features the paper "The Awakening as Poetic Theory" by Jack Kerkering. This seminar, which debuted in 2013, provides a forum for works in progress that explore the history of American Literature. It does so at a moment when the field’s central concepts – of historicism as a mode of literary study, of national literatures, of the distinctiveness of the literary – are under some pressure. We are particularly interested in writing that in some way exemplifies, responds to, or significantly acknowledges this pressure, while at the same time engaging specific literary or critical texts.
To attend, please read our Registration Information.
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The Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar
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Information session: Monday, 10/12, 4:00 PM CST, to be conducted via Zoom
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Application deadline: Wednesday, 11/11
Undergraduates eager to dig deep into the Newberry Library’s collections have a chance to take part in the Newberry Library’s Undergraduate Seminar. This year’s theme is “Chicago, City of Art, Industry & Labor, 1890-1960,” which will be taught by Dr. Melissa Bradshaw (Loyola) and Dr. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola). This 6-credit course is a unique opportunity to spend time in the Newberry’s archival collection working towards completion of a substantial research paper. Students will get engaged learning and writing intensive credit.
Interested students can find out more about the program and how to apply here.
Questions about applying should be directed to Dr. Shermer, eshermer@luc.edu.
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Faculty
- Jayme Stayer's upcoming book, entitled Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in "Inventions of the March Hare," has been accepted by Johns Hopkins University Press. This study offers a rhetorical analysis of how the young Eliot created a new voice and targeted a modern audience in the poems of his youthful notebook, published in 1996 as Inventions of the March Hare. By following Eliot’s artistic development and intellectual maturation, the author explores, by chronological steps, how a young man who writes uninspired doggerel transformed himself—in twenty months—into the author of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
- Brooks Bouson was interviewed by an Italian journalist on her book Shame and the Aging Woman: Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Cotemporary Women's Writings, and English and Italian versions of the interview were recently published online. The book itself is being translated into Chinese for publication by Southeast University Press. Brooks also has three publications forthcoming: first, a chapter called “Embodied Shame and the Aging Woman,” to be included in Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction (under contract with Bloomsbury Press); second, a chapter on “Atwood and Environmentalism” for the Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood; and third, an essay on the life and writing career of Jamaica Kincaid for the reference work Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context. Dr. Bouson’s essay on Kincaid's novel See Now Then was recently published in Contemporary Women’s Writing.
Current Students
- Lydia Craig's article, "What Charles Dickens Never Said: Verifying Internet 'Quotes' and Accessing the Works with Online Resources," has been published in the latest Dickens Quarterly. Lydia was inspired to verify and research alleged Dickens quotes during her tenure as communications co-chair of the Dickens Society, when she was exposed to the many memes made from dubious Dickens quotes that members shared on social media. Her article can be accessed via Project MUSE.
Alumni
Congratulations to our 2020 PhDs on their faculty appointments!
- Erica Chu has accepted a position as tenure-track English faculty at Truman College, a community college in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, where they have previously served as an adjunct.
- Justin Hastings has been appointed Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature, with accelerated tenure, at Fairmont State University.
- Casey Jergenson has been appointed Lecturer in English at Western Colorado University.
- Mary Lutze has been appointed Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor, a tenure track equivalent position, in the English, Rhetoric, and Writing Department at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.
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