CELCE

Dear CELCE Members:

After two years of service as your Graduate Coordinator, it is time for me to step aside to concentrate on my dissertation.

It is my pleasure to announce that Ruth Simon and Lea Puljcan Juric will be taking over as Graduate Coordinators for CELCE in the Fall.

Ruth Simon specializes in Medieval literature and culture with particular interest in Piers Plowman. She holds a BA from University of Washington and is just finishing her first year here at NYU.

Lea Puljcan Juric holds a BA from University of Zagreb, Croatia, and an MA from California State University. Her major research interests are Early Modern English literature, colonial and post-colonial studies. Lea is also completing her first year at NYU.

Please welcome your new Graduate Coordinators. And thank you all for two great years of community and conversation.

All the Best,

Spencer Keralis
Graduate Coordinator
The Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English

The Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English is pleased to announce our first graduate student conference, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, 2008. We invite papers that take interdisciplinary approaches to representations of borders (spatial, temporal, semiotic, and sensory), and the ways in which respecting or crossing them affected individuals and societies in English-speaking worlds from the medieval period up to the eighteenth century.

Some possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cultural exchanges within the Old World (e.g. the French in medieval England; interactions between East and West; Africa in Europe, etc.)
- Trans-Atlanticism
- Slavery and captivity
- Cultural translation
- Early print culture and the changing face of literacy
- When language fails: Visual, aural, and other extra-linguistic representations in texts
- Cultural/Systemic change and representation of transitional periods

Please send your 250-word abstract to the CELCE coordinators by November 15, 2007.

Thank you,

Lea Puljcan Juric
lpj212@nyu.edu

Ruth F. Simon
ruth.simon@nyu.edu

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: 13-19 University Place, Room 222

Dear colleagues,

CELCE is pleased to invite you to our final event of the fall 2007 semester! Please join us in supporting the work of two of our doctoral students and a distinguished faculty, all specialists in the early modern period.

Presenters:

Kathryn Elizabeth Vomero -- “The Metamorphosis of Lucrece”

Ross M Knecht -- "Humanism, Geography, and the Racialized World Picture"

Respondent:

Professor Ernest Gilman

Let us celebrate our colleagues and the end of another exciting semester at NYU. Refreshments will be served in the holiday spirit! All welcome!

Presenter:
Cody Brooks Reis, “Monism and the rhetoric of personality: De Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost”
Cody works on Renaissance studies, rhetoric, and theory, and on the problem of materialism in the comparative histories of literature, science, religion, philosophy, and politics. He is a third-year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting fellow at NYU for 2007-2008.

Respondent:
Professor John Guillory

Join us for great scholarship and fine refreshments!

Please join us for Crossing Borders, CELCE's first Graduate Conference, to be held Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, in the Great Room of 19 University Place at NYU.

The conference features five graduate student panels with papers by graduate students from around the country, and a keynote address by distinguished NYU professor Carolyn Dinshaw.

For complete conference details and a schedule of panels, please visit the conference website.

Applications for next year's dissertation seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library are due June 2. For those of you unfamiliar with this program, it is jointly run by a faculty member from History and from English. For the 2008-09 academic year, Jean Howard (Columbia) and Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University) will lead the seminar entitled "Researching the Archives" which is designed for doctoral candidates at work on their dissertations. Grants-in-aid to cover expenses to travel to and from the monthly seminar, and for two nights' accommodation, is available. For further information, consult the Folger Institute website on line, or see NYU's Folger liaison, Professor Karen Newman, in the Department of English.

CELCE is exceptionally pleased to announce our final event of the academic year: a roundtable on the problem of periodization in medieval and early modern studies. Join us, and take part in what is bound to be a lively and informative debate on some of the key issues in current scholarship.

Discussants:
Professor Haruko Momma
Professor Christopher Cannon
Professor Karen Newman
Angie Bennett, master’s student
Jennie Votava, doctoral candidate
Ross Knecht, doctoral candidate

Moderator:
Professor Ernest Gilman

Thursday, May 1
3-5 pm
Room 222, 19 UP

As always, fine refreshments will be served.

As the 2007-8 academic year winds down, Lea Puljcan Juric and Ruth Simon would like to thank all the presenters, collaborators, and audience members for their help and support this year at CELCE events. We thoroughly enjoyed our year as the CELCE graduate coordinators. Your involvement in the events made them a success and we greatly appreciate that.

For the 2008-9 academic year, two new graduate coordinators will be assuming the reins for CELCE. Kathryn Vomero and Liza Blake, two early modern scholars, will be bringing new panels, presentations, and speakers to the community. Lea and Ruth ask that you give Kathryn and Liza the support and encouragement you showed us.

All the best,
Lea and Ruth