Please join us for the first in an ongoing series of events in which Department of English faculty and graduate students will present current research, giving brief talks from recent publications or works-in-progress. These talks will offer an opportunity for colleagues to learn more about one another’s scholarship and creative activity and create a space for conversation about this work. Time will be set aside for questions at the end of each session.
April 6 Talks
Martin Joseph Ponce, “Wing Tek Lum’s Poetics of Atrocity in The Nanjing Massacre: Poems.”
Martin Joseph “Joe” Ponce is an associate professor of English whose teaching and research interests focus on Asian American, African American and comparative U.S. ethnic literatures and cultures, queer of color and queer diasporic critique, and histories and theories of U.S. empire. He is the author of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (NYU Press, 2012).
Roxann Wheeler, “One Race and Many Races: Innovation and Practice in the English Language, 1550-1760.”
Roxann Wheeler is an associate professor of English, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature and culture: especially theater, novel, slang, servitude and slavery in England and the West Indian colonies. She is the author of The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and of articles on labor and language, visual culture and race, and comedic theater and slavery.
Register for the Zoom meeting at go.osu.edu/researchtalks1