Please join us for the first of this year’s English Research Talks, 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 + 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, material, 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.
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October 24 Research Talks
Jamison Kantor, “Outside Providence: Romantic Time and Afro-Asian Internationalism”
Jamison Kantor is an assistant professor of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and transatlantic literature, focusing on Romanticism. His recent essays have been published in The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, PMLA, and Jump Cut. His book—on honor as a counterpoint to liberty in the Romantic period—is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Elizabeth Weiser, “Museums Decolonizing: New Pasts, New Futures.”
Elizabeth Weiser is a professor of rhetoric who focuses on public memory, modern rhetorical theory, and museology. Author of Burke, War, Words and Museum Rhetoric, she is currently at work on a project examining the truth and reconciliation rhetoric of (mostly) new museums of conscience run by subaltern communities across the polarized American heartland. A long-time board member of the Kenneth Burke Society, Liz now sits on the executive board and co-edits the journal of the world’s largest network of museum studies scholars, the International Committee for Museology.
