Scholarly Speakers Series
Scholarly Speakers Series
The annual WMU Department of English Scholarly Speakers Series brings in academic speakers from all over the United States to share their scholarship with the department, the university, and the community. In addition to visiting scholars, this series also celebrates the achievements of our own faculty, recognizing two of our colleagues each year who have recently published books or otherwise contributed to their discipline in a significant way.
Fall 2012 Schedule
Staci Perryman-Clark
Western Michigan University
"Rethinking Appropriateness and Inclusion: Toward a Writing Programmatic Policy on Linguistic Diversity"
Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Brown 3025
Nate Powell
Bloomington, IN
"Cross Sections: The Graphic Novels of Nate Powell"
Thursday, October 4, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
Center for the Visual Arts 2008
The Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecture
Ania Loomba
University of Pennsylvania
"The Tempest and the Histories of Globalization"
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Brown 2028
Devoney Looser
University of Missouri
"Mary Wollstonecraft, Author-Ghost: Enlightenment Origins of Modern Feminism"
Thursday, November 29, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Knauss 2500/Center for the Humanities
Spring 2013
John Saillant
Western Michigan University
"The Raw and the Cooked in African American Textual Production, 1770-1830"
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Brown 3025
Sara Crosby
Ohio University-Marion
"The Democratic Poisoner: The Democrats, the Partisan Press, and the Erasure of the Poisonous Woman in Antebellum American Literature"
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Brown 3025
Jose Limon
University of Notre Dame
"Al Notre Toward Home: Texas, the Midwest, and Mexican-American Critical Regionalism"
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Brown 3025