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Dr. Sean Latham: Visiting Scholar Spring 2012

The College of Saint Rose 2012 English Department Visiting Scholar is Dr. Sean Latham. He presented his paper "New Media, New Modernisms: Magazines and Digital Theory."

Dr. Latham is a professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He serves as Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and is co-director of the Modernist Journals Project, as well as co-editor of the Journal of Modern Periodoical Studies.

He has authored and edited five titles and many articles on topics in moderinsm cultural history, law, media, and the digital humanities. Titles include The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman A Clef in 2009, and 2003's Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel.

Rebecca Walkowitz , Visiting Scholar for Spring 2011

Rebecca WalkowitzOn Wednesday, February 23, at 6:30pm in the Carondelet Symposium in the Lally School of Education, Rebecca Walkowitz, will give a talk titled "Born-Translated and Born-Digital: Comparative Writing in an Age of Electronic Literature." Walkowitz describes her focus as tying in well with theoretical readings on world literature, theories of translation, the history of the book and 'authorship,' and the relationship between the history of the novel and the conception of political communities." The lecture if free and open to the public.

Walkowitz will also be participating in an informal discussion in ENG 115 Introduction to Film and New Media Studies from 5-5:55pm in CCIM 121 Faculty and students are welcome to attend this discussion too.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Associate Professor in the English Department and an affiliate faculty member in the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University. Professor Walkowitz is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Columbia, 2006; paperback 2007), which was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2008 Perkins Prize. She is also the editor or coeditor of seven books, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (2007), Bad Modernisms (with Douglas Mao, 2006), The Turn to Ethics (with Marjorie Garber and Beatrice Hanssen, 2000), and Media Spectacles (with Marjorie Garber and Jann Matlock, 1993). For fuller information see her website at Rutgers University.
  


Michael Chaney: Spring 2010 English Department Visiting Scholar

Poster for Michael Chaney: English Visiting Scholar 2010Michael Chaney, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth (Ph.D., Indiana University), will speak on "Subject and History in The African American Graphic Novel" on Wednesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Carondelet Symposium in the Lally School of Education on Madison Avenue at The College of Saint Rose. Chaney’s research and teaching focus on race representation, mixed race identity, and the interrelationship of literature and visual culture. His book, FugitiveVision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative, is available from Indiana University Press. In addition to many essays in journals such as MELUS and Modern Fiction Studies, Chaney has Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Graphic Novels and Autobiography forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press.  The lecture is free and open to the public. 

Chaney joins a group of distinguished scholars and writers sponsored by the English Department in the School of Arts and Humanities at The College of Saint Rose. Each year, the English Department Visiting Scholar Series hosts a scholar or professional writer who gives a public lecture or reading on-campus and interacts with students in English graduate classes. Visiting scholars have included literary and social theorist Susan Bordo, literary critic Susan Gubar, environmental writer Bill McKibben, and, most recently in April 2009, literary biographer Brenda Wineapple.
 


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