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Strode Symposium
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Shakespeare's Love Triangles
301 Morgan Hall, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Symposium Speakers:
Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt University): "Monogamy and Death"
Edward J. Geisweidt (University of Alabama): "'I have not Placed all my Treasures in One Bottom': Triangulated Desire and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice"
Jonathan Goldberg (Emory University): "What Do Women Want?"
Madhavi Menon (American University): "Coriolanus and I"
Daniel Juan Gil (Texas Christian University): "Geometries of the Flesh: Humoral Bonding and the Breakdown of Sovereignty"
Carla Freccero (University of California, Santa Cruz): "Romeo and Juliet Love Death"
Strode Lecture Series
Tuesday, October 28th
Aaron Kunin
"Banish the World: A Project for Shakespearean Pastoral"
301 Morgan, 5:00 PM
Strode Lecture Series
Thursday, November 13th
Mary Bly (Fordham University)
"Mapping Seduction: Shakespeare, Popular Romance, and Homeland Security"
301 Morgan, 5:00 PM
Strode Lecture Series
Friday, November 21st
Kathryn Stockton (University of Utah)
"Theorizing the Queer Child: Henry James, NAMBLA, and Venus in Furs"
301 Morgan, 5:00 PM
The Department of English at the University of Alabama seeks to cultivate the arts of reading, writing and speaking the English language. We encourage the creation and interpretation of imaginative works of literature; we strive for a mastery of composition, linguistics, literary history and theory. We challenge our students to read, write and think in a sophisticated and critical fashion, to understand the historical evolutions of American and English literatures, to participate in the development of knowledge through scholarly research, publication and creative writing, and to provide meaningful service to the state and nation as teachers, writers and scholars. Our commitment is to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of our campus, our community and the individuals who compose them.
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