Department of English

Faculty Colloquy Presentations

All talks are on Wednesdays in Shanks 370, 12:15-1:15

Talks will be fairly informal with a good amount of time for feedback and response.

Fall 2009

September 9, Wednesday Paul Heilker "Autism and Rhetoric"
October 7, Wednesday Kathy Combiths "Quilters Reaching Out to the Community"
October 28, Wednesday Bob Siegle "What Would a Buddhist Poetics Be?"

Spring 2010

Dan Mosser "Three Digital Projects"
Dennis Welch "Ellison's Invisible Man: Secularizing the Fortunate Fall and Apocalypse"
Bernice Hausman, Katrina Powell, and Clare Dannenberg "The Moral Appeal of Environmentalist Discourses"
Gyorgyi Voros "Errant Currants: Poems on the Manhattan Project"

Spring 2009

Feb 4 Mark Armstrong "How Emotional Persuasion Works: Psychology and Argument Function"
Mar 4 Katie Fallon "Birds, Biologists, Coffee, and Coal Mines: Research in Cerulean Blues," a work of literary nonfiction
Mar 25 David Radcliffe "Doing Things with XML"
Apr 29 Dennis Welch "Deception and Revolution in Kant and Blake"

Fall 2008

Sept 24 Clare Dannenberg "One Less Wire on the Birdcage: An Investigation into the Cultural Significance of Gender-Neutral Language"
Oct 15 Fritz Oehlschlaeger "Practices, Particulars, and Virtues: What Mules Taught Wendell Berry"
Oct 29 Kelly Pender "What Is Techne?"
Nov 19 Sue Saffle "Understanding Backwards: Finnish 'War Children' Share their Stories"