English Research Talks is an ongoing series that provides faculty an opportunity to share their current scholarship or creative work with the department community, creating conversations about topics of shared interest. This year’s panels are funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme and will focus on the theme of “archival imaginations.” Presenters will examine issues around archives and archival research in contemporary English studies, including: archives as institutions of privilege and power; forms of evidence (print, digital, oral, material, performative, visual, testimonial, and so on) and how they are collected in archives; archives as institutions that both create invisibility and afford means to the recovery or exposure invisible presences; and legal, textual, editorial, rhetorical, historical, theoretical approaches to archival study and knowledge.
“The House that Jane Built: Space, Domesticity and the Single Woman”
As a literary historian, Andreá Williams is drawn to questions about the social and material conditions that historically have enabled or inhibited African Americans in producing literature and art. She is working now on a cultural study of unmarried women who contributed to Black literary culture in the early twentieth century.
“Mapping Trends in Computers and Writing Research: The Computers and Writing Research Database”
John Jones studies digital media, rhetoric and writing theory, and professional and technical communication. His research explores the connections between mind, body, and communication with a particular focus on the impact of digital media and writing tools on rhetorical practices.
Lunch will be provided at this event.
