Please join us for the second Furst Forum event of the semester! Our department's very own Dr. María DeGuzmán will be giving a presentation at 5:30pm on April 16th, in Greenlaw 225. Dr. DeGuzmán's presentation is entitled "Accidental Photos, or … 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
Join us on Tuesday 4/2 at 5:30pm for the first lecture in this semester's Lillian Furst Forum Lecture Series! The Furst Forum honors UNC faculty and students with an invitation to present interdisciplinary research. The lecture series aims to encourage … 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
Join us for Spring semester Open House! Open to all LSP affiliates, friends, and the community at large.
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
In coordination with his Thursday lecture "Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Book Industry and American Literature," Daniel Sinykin will lead a Graduate Student Seminar.
