December 2006 archives

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December 27, 2006 by Cyrus Patell

American Literary Historiography, Then and Now

Robert Ferguson (Columbia University) wrote to me in an e-mail that the format for tonight’s MLA roundtable “American Literary Historiography, Then and Now,” which I am chairing, was not promising, given that we had seven people slotted to speak and then field questions — and only 1 hour and 15 minutes to do it in. [...]

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December 22, 2006 by Cyrus Patell

Rheney Lecture: Why Emergent Literatures Matter

Last month, I gave the 2006 Rheney Lecture at Vanderbilt University at the invitation of the English Department’s graduate students. The Rheney series is special because the graduate students nominate and choose which speakers they will bring, and I had a wonderful time meeting and learning about the work of quite a number of graduate [...]