Project Narrative: Graduate Workshop with Professor Suzanne Keen, on Feminist and Queer Narrative Theories

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May 11, 2011
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Hayes Cape room, Ohio Union

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2011-05-11 19:30:00 2011-05-11 22:30:00 Project Narrative: Graduate Workshop with Professor Suzanne Keen, on Feminist and Queer Narrative Theories Suzanne Keen is an innovator in the fields and cognitive narrative theories and an expert on narratological approaches form. She introduced the influential concepts of "bounded, ambassadorial, and broadcast narrative empathy" in herEmpathy and the Novel, which has just been released in paperback. Her research areas include the Victorian novel as well as contemporary British fiction and postcolonial literature. She is Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Washington and Lee University.  Professor Keen will be at OSU in connection with the Project Narrative Symposium on Queer and Femnist Narrative Theories, May 12-14, where she will take part in a roundtable with Kay Young and Melba Cuddy-Keane entitled: "Can queer/femnist theories and cognitive/neurological narrative theories have anything to say to each other?" She will address this topic in more detail at the Graduate Workshop, whose participants are encouraged to attend the roundtable as well as the rest of the Symposium at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near the Columbus Convention Center.  Readings for the Workshop will be announced as May approaches. Please contact Professor Robyn Warhol if you have any questions about the Workshop or the Symposium.  Those interested in the workshop should sign up for 2 hours of spring quarter English 693 (MA/MFA students: course #10503) or 993 (PhD students: course #10686) with Robyn Warhol as soon as possible. MA/MFA students should contact Kathleen (graduateenglish@osu.edu) about registering for the workshop; PhD students can enroll for the hours on Buckeye Link. Hayes Cape room, Ohio Union America/New_York public

Suzanne Keen is an innovator in the fields and cognitive narrative theories and an expert on narratological approaches form. She introduced the influential concepts of "bounded, ambassadorial, and broadcast narrative empathy" in herEmpathy and the Novel, which has just been released in paperback. Her research areas include the Victorian novel as well as contemporary British fiction and postcolonial literature. She is Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Washington and Lee University. 

Professor Keen will be at OSU in connection with the Project Narrative Symposium on Queer and Femnist Narrative Theories, May 12-14, where she will take part in a roundtable with Kay Young and Melba Cuddy-Keane entitled: "Can queer/femnist theories and cognitive/neurological narrative theories have anything to say to each other?" She will address this topic in more detail at the Graduate Workshop, whose participants are encouraged to attend the roundtable as well as the rest of the Symposium at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near the Columbus Convention Center. 

Readings for the Workshop will be announced as May approaches. Please contact Professor Robyn Warhol if you have any questions about the Workshop or the Symposium. 

Those interested in the workshop should sign up for 2 hours of spring quarter English 693 (MA/MFA students: course #10503) or 993 (PhD students: course #10686) with Robyn Warhol as soon as possible. MA/MFA students should contact Kathleen (graduateenglish@osu.edu) about registering for the workshop; PhD students can enroll for the hours on Buckeye Link.