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With David Kastan and Matthew Hunter
Thursday, December 7th at 4 p.m. ET
Join David Kastan and Matthew Hunter for a discussion of why Christopher Marlowe's most famous play, Doctor Faustus, has endured in Early Modern Literature.
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with David and Matthew.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
With Phillip Mallett and Jane Thomas
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Join Phillip Mallett (University of St. Andrews) and Jane Thomas (University of Hull) for a discussion of why Thomas Hardy's novels, particularly TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, have endured as often taught and read collections! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professors Mallett and Thomas. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
PHILLIP MALLETT is Honorary Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St
Andrews, a Vice-President of the Thomas Hardy Society, and an honorary fellow of both the
Centro Universitario di Studi Vittoriani e Edoardiani and the French Association for Thomas
Hardy Studies. He was the Editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal from 2008-2018. His
published work includes Rudyard Kipling: a Literary Life (2003), eight edited collections of
essays, including Thomas Hardy in Context (Cambridge UP, 2013) and The Victorian Novel
and Masculinity (Palgrave, 2015), as well as Norton Critical Editions of The Return of the
Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge, and editions of Under the Greenwood Tree and Flora
Thompson’s Lark Rise to Candleford for Oxford World’s Classics.
JANE THOMAS is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Hull. She is a VicePresident of the Thomas Hardy Society and was for over a decade the Society’s Academic
Director. Her publications include Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent: Reassessing the
‘Minor’ Novels (Palgrave, 1999); Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the
Self (Palgrave, 2013); and editions of Hardy’s The Well-Beloved with The Pursuit of the
Well-Beloved, A Changed Man and Other Stories, and Life’s Little Ironies. She has also
written on Thomas Hardy and the visual arts, with special reference to the sculpture of Hamo
Thornycroft, on Hardy and the Boer War, and on Hardy and masculinity. She is co-editor
with Sue Kennedy of British Women’s Writing, 1930-1960: Between the Waves (Liverpool
University Press, 2020).
With Margaret Homans and Madelyn Detloff
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Join Margaret Homans (Yale University) and Madelyn Detloff (Miami University) for a discussion of why Virginia Woolf’s novels, including To the Lighthouse and Orlando, have endured as often taught and read collections! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Margaret and Madelyn. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
Margaret Homans is a professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. She is the author of Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing; Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837?1876; Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson; The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility; and Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Madelyn Detloff is Professor of English and Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Oxford, OH. She is the author of The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and The Value of Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is co-editor, with Brenda Helt, of Queer Bloomsbury (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and, with Diana Royer, of Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism (Clemson University Press, 2008). Her essays appear in a number of venues, including Modernism/modernity, Hypatia, Feminist Modernist Studies, Women’s Studies, JMMLA, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Literature Compass, and English Language Notes.
With Jared Gardner and Jeremy Dauber
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Join Jared Gardner and Jeremy Dauber for a discussion of why Will Eisner's graphic novels have endured as often taught and read collections!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Jared and Jeremy.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
Jared Gardner is Joseph V. Denney Designated Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue. He is also the author of three monographs, including Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-Century Storytelling and The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture, and he is the editor or coeditor of several volumes, including The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life. He has worked closely for many years with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State, including serving as curator on several exhibits.
Jeremy Dauber is a professor of Jewish literature and American studies at Columbia University. He is the author of the recently published American Comics, Jewish Comedy, and The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem, the latter two of which were finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in New York City.
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