The first of our Graduate Lecture Series presentations for the 2023-2024 cycle. “In his tale “Hop-Frog,” Edgar Allan Poe presents a thoughtless, repressive, and violent court as an allegory for contemporary American politicians and literary elites. The story depicts the … Read more
The second Graduate Lecture Series event of the year! "After the titular hero of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko kills the second of two tigers, he cuts the heart from its breast to find “Seven Bullets of Lead in it” (46). Given … Read more
Our penultimate Graduate Lecture Series event of the school year! "Early modern literature is rife with concern about the influence of parentage, education, and environment on a child’s nature. Questions of children’s moral inheritance appear in domestic tragedy plays, chronicles, … Read more
The CSS welcomes Professor Jennifer Fleissner to talk novel studies and scholarship with the student body and faculty at large. “Jennifer Fleissner studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, focusing on the rise of American modernity. Her most recent book, Maladies … Read more
The final Graduate Lecture Series event of the semester! “From the predatory gaze of her enslaver to the “loophole of retreat,” the themes of surveillance and sousveillance play an important role in Harriet Jacobs’s narrative, Incidents in the Life of … Read more
