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2019 – 2020 ARC Schedule
All meetings are held at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2019:
Oct. 3rd: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University), “Ante-Oedipus: Atlantic Modernity and New World Gender.”
Nov. 14th: Lisa Mendelman (Menlo College), “Diagnosing America: Mental Health and Modern Literature, 1890-1940.”
Winter 2020:
Mar. 5th: Thomas Koenigs (Scripps College), “‘The Mysterious Depths’ of Slave Interiority: Fiction and Intersubjective Knowledge in ‘The Heroic Slave.’”
Feb. 20th: Joshua Guzmán (UCLA), “Confessing Malaise: The Style Politics of Laura Aguilar’s “Talking About Depression” and Gregg Araki’s Totally F***ed Up”
Spring 2020:
April 30th: Vivian Delchamps (UCLA), “Contradictions of Diagnosis in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
May 13: Allison Carruth (UCLA), “Nature by Design: Rewilding Experiments and the Fantasy of De-Extinction”