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[PAST EVENT] W&M Homecoming English Faculty Panel
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- Free food
- Open to the public
A Lightning Panel in Literary Studies Now: Four Eminent Professors and Their Research
When: Friday, October 18, 3:30-4:30 pm
Where: Tucker Hall 111, reception following in Tucker Foyer
What are some of the diverse questions animating literary studies today? Come hear four of the William & Mary English Department’s most eminent professors will give brief accounts of some of their most current research. There’ll be plenty of time for your questions, both following the panel’s remarks and at the reception following.
Kim Wheatley has taught at William & Mary since 1992. She specializes in British Romanticism and is the author of a book on Percy Bysshe Shelley and one on Romantic-era periodicals. She'll be talking about her forthcoming book (February 6, 2025), John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism: Re-imagining William Wordsworth and John Keats, about Powys (JCP to partisans), a prolific, important, wide-ranging but currently underknown 20th century neo-romanticist author.
Deborah Denenholz Morse has taught at William & Mary since 1988 and is the NEH Professor of English. She writes on Victorian literature and culture, including the Brontës (on whom she has also done an Audible lecture series), Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, focusing on issues of social justice, including women's rights, abolitionism, and animal welfare. She’ll talk about her most recent publication, an Audible Great Courses lecture series on Victorian Animals, which touches on writers from Beatrix Potter to Virginia Woolf and beyond.
Liz Losh, the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of English & American Studies, has taught at William & Mary since 2015. She has written two books about the White House and digital technology, a book about hashtag activism on social media, and a book about conflicts over using technology on college campuses. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Estonia in the 2021-22 academic year. She directs the W&M Equality Lab and co-chairs the Modern Language Association / College on College Composition and Communication Joint Task Force on Writing and AI. She’ll talk about her current book project focusing on AI literacy.
Melanie Dawson is the Sara E. Nance Professor of English and has taught at William & Mary since 2000. She works with nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature. She is the author of books focused on realist writing, Edith Wharton and twentieth-century narratives about the aging process, and other topics. She’ll be talking about her current book project, which is about questions of material permanence in the Gilded Age.
Sponsored by: English and Linguistics Department