A.K. 史密斯学者系列

2024年春季.K. 史密斯学者系列 Schedule

加里·豪伊

“Romance, Fantasy, and Other Religious Experiences”

结合, 3月6日th, 4:30pm- 里斯房间，史密斯公寓 

 Romance and fantasy are words that get a lot of mileage out of their ambiguity. 毕竟，他们 name modern literary genres that owe a debt to medieval genres—think castles, think kisses—even as they name more basic, 讽刺的是, ways of figuring desire: “a fine romance”; “a sweet, sweet fantasy, baby.“在他们最好的时候(和 也许总是) romance and fantasy exceed the very scripts they give us: we might come for the dragons (or the breeches) but we stay for something more. That “more” could, of course, be quantitative: more dragons, more breeches! 但它也可以，如果 我们 幸运的, be the “more” that the world becomes, that the world is 事实上 revealed always to have been, if we look closely and generously enough—if, 这是, we allow it to sweep us off our feet. To put this a little differently: if our world’s recurring problem is that it seems altogether 幻想破灭的, 我们怎样才能, as folks for whom reading and thinking and imagining matter, take up the challenge of re-enchanting that world? How might our romances and our fantasies (in every sense) make, 事实上, a real as well as an imagined difference? As I try to live up to these questions, I can at least promise some promiscuous reading, 过时的快乐, 酷儿, 和僧侣. 

Cary’s writing and teaching tend to put medieval literature into conversation with modern practices and preoccupations. In his classes he attempts to give students the freedom to explore aspects of their intellectual and embodied lives that are usually overlooked in more traditional academic settings. He is interested in breaking down familiar boundaries between academic and literary languages, as well as cultivating new ways of asking old questions, especially questions about the body and the soul, in the variously rich vocabularies of 英语, 法国, 意大利语和拉丁语. He is the author of essays on medieval gender and sexuality; on the difficulty of letting go; on meditation, 神秘主义, and saints’ lives; and on a range of authors from Rutebeuf to Dante, Marie de France to Shakespeare

Dixa Ramirez-D 'Oleo

“The Trickster in the Cave: Unseen Realms, Photography, and the Black Caribbean”

结合, 3月27日th, 4:30pm- 里斯房间，史密斯公寓 

在这次演讲中，我 冥想 on the question of technology, 特别是摄影, in relation to spiritual and anomalous phenomena such as spirits or ghosts, 超凡脱俗的人, and events that exceed Western modernity’s conceptions of time and space. I do so by focusing on the multimedia poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and the choreography of Ligia Lewis, 绕道去读柏拉图, 苏珊·桑塔格, and Afro-Caribbean magico-spiritual practices. The talk is a section of my forthcoming book Blackness and the Photographic Negative. 

Dr. Dixa拉米雷斯-D 'Oleo is associate professor of 英语 at Brown University. She has published two books: Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (2018, 纽约大学出版社), which received the 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award from the Caribbean Studies Association and the 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association, and This Will Not Be Generative (2023, Cambridge University Press). She is finishing two monographs: Blackness and the Photographic Negative, forthcoming from Duke University Press and A Personal History of Mysticism. Her writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal, 大西洋的研究, 热切地, 黑人学者, 比较文学, Hyperallergic, 干预措施, the Los Angeles Review of Books, 小斧, 和社会文本. She also serves on the Editorial Committee of 小斧. 

马特网络

“Catfishing Mark Twain: Frederick Douglass, Adventures of 《信誉最好的网投十大平台》和珀西瓦尔·埃弗雷特的 詹姆斯“

结合, 4月3日rd, 4:30pm- 里斯房间，史密斯公寓 

On March 19th of this year, Doubleday published a new novel by Percival Everett, for which they reportedly paid more than $500,000, by far the biggest advance of Everett’s long and now quite-decorated career. 这部小说, 詹姆斯, is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s Adventures of 《信誉最好的网投十大平台》, told from the perspective of Huck’s self-emancipated traveling companion, Jim. Seybold argues that Everett’s novel will be many things to many readers, among them an incisive work of Twain Studies, as the narrative directly addresses many of the critical controversies associated with 《信誉最好的网投十大平台》 自出版以来.

马特网络 is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as Resident Scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies. He is also the founding director of the Media Studies, Communications, & 设计方案 at Elmira College, executive producer and host of The American Vandal Podcast, 也是 MarkTwainStudies.org. He is co-editor (with Michelle Chihara) of The Routledge Companion to Literature & 经济学 (2018) and (with Gordon Hutner) of 2019年特刊 美国文学史 在“经济学 & Literary Studies in The New Gilded Age.” His work has appeared in dozens of 出版物.