Seminars

Chair: Jennifer Roberts

A forum for research that engages with the physics, aesthetics, poetics, and/or politics of outer space....

Chairs: Kyle Frisina, Dani Snyder-Young

Chairs: Charrise Barron, Alejandro L. Madrid

"Musics Abroad" will take a global and comparative approach to music and mobility in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to music and musicians within new diaspora...

Chairs: Yoon Sun Lee, Deidre Lynch

The novel is a radically capacious and always evolving genre, open to the full range of world literature, across periods and locations....

Chairs: Erin Murphy, Sarah Wall-Randell

Considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social, religious, and artistic cultures of the early modern period....

On Hiatus AY25-26

Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 

A forum for current research and debate on visual, spatial, and plastic forms of representation for those working in the history of art and architecture, literature, history, philosophy, or cultural studies....

Chairs: Tara Menon, Colton Valentine

Meets three times per semester to hear and discuss work in progress on topics in Victorian literature, history, art, science, and popular culture....

Chairs: Louis Menand, Julie Reuben

Aims to expand our understanding of the institutions in which we work and in which most of the intellectual labor of the world is conducted or supported....

Chairs: Magda Romanska, Ramona Mosse 

Considers the intersection of contemporary art/theatre and new media technologies...

Chairs: Aleksandra Kremer, Alex Rehding, Sophie Seita

Sound/Text examines the intersections and interstices of language, textuality, music, and noise,...