CELCE

Please join CELCE to celebrate two new books by NYU faculty.

Bryan Waterman
Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

and

Martha Rust
Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix

Professors Waterman and Rust will read from their new books, with graduate student respondents Chantal Johnson and Ruth Simon.

Friday, September 28, 3:00 p.m.
NYU Languages and Literatures Building
19 University Place, Room 222

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

CELCE - CRALS - Modern Colloquium present a Mock MLA Panel

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: 13-19 University Place, Room 222

Presenters:
Sara Landreth - Breaking the Laws of Motion: “Literary” Language and the Science of the Brain Sarah Nash - The Purifying Licenser: Creating the Sympathetic Reader for Dickens' Bentley's Miscellany Beth Kramer - Sensational Strategies: Fiction, Feminism and Victorian Employment Reform

Respondent: Professor Mary Poovey

Please mark your calendars and join us in providing a forum for these doctoral candidates to workshop their MLA papers.

Refreshments will be provided!

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.