Activities per year
Activities
Conceptions of Embodied Subjectivity in Monastic Miscellanies
Renee Trilling (Speaker)
Jan 2013
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Home and Not Home: Articulating Migrant and Indigenous Itinerancies
Siobhan B Somerville (Panelist)
Nov 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Finding the Words: Tracking Narratives of Literacy and Illiteracy in the American Experience
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
2012
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do’: Witches, Rats, Food, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Feb 2009
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Revisiting Histories of Literacy
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
Oct 21 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Animals, Ecology, and Empire in the Naval Chronicle Edition of Robinson Crusoe (1815)
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Sep 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
A Rhetorical Approach to Revising Revisionist Histories of Literacy
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Pirates of the Press: Case Studies in the Prehistory of Copyright
Adam V Doskey (Speaker), & Lori Humphrey Newcomb (Speaker)
Oct 2015
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Stealing Independence: Liberal and Late Liberal Modes of Representation
Patricia Loughran (Speaker)
Apr 20 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
The Rhetoric of Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
2014
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Island Time: Ecology, Empire, and Robinson Crusoe (1719 and 1815)
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Oct 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
The Contributions of Pioneering Chinese American Filmmaker James B. Leong (1889-1967) to Trans-Cultural Media Collaborations and Activism in the U.S.
Ramona Curry (Speaker)
Mar 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
George Schuyler, Ella Baker, and Cooperative Economics
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Speaker)
2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Reading Defoe’s Animals in the Land of the Mouse
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Apr 2018
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Rules to Live By: Molding the Monastic Body
Renee Trilling (Speaker)
Jul 2012
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Crisis after Crisis: The Rhetoric of Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Keynote speaker)
2014
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
The Perils of the new SAT Writing Test
Dennis E Baron (Speaker)
Mar 17 2005
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Parasites Unleashed: Dogs, Flies, and Flatterers in Thomas Shadwell’s Timon of Athens
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Oct 2012
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Swift, Molyneux, and the Insects of Ireland: Ecocriticism Meets Satire
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Apr 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Two ‘Truths’ and a Lie: Frances E.W. Harper’s Reconstruction Revisions
Derrick Spires (Speaker)
Nov 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Swarming Animals, the Plagues of Egypt, and the Sensitive Soul
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Jan 2013
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Surfacing Multiliteracies in Narratives of Literacy and Illiteracy: Historical Considerations, Ethical Implications
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
2010
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
A Beautiful Death: Hip Hop Authorship and the Birth of the (Female) Listener
Candice M Jenkins (Speaker)
Apr 2011
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
African American Literature and the US Welfare State
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Speaker)
2015
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
What is the place of Writing Studies in the Modern Language Association?
Catherine Jean Prendergast (Speaker)
2013
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Passing, Privilege and (In)Authenticity in Memoirs by Rebecca Walker and Caille Millner
Candice M Jenkins (Speaker)
Apr 2011
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
The Plagues of Egypt and Providential Ecology
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Sep 2011
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Material Worlds in Early Medieval England
Renee Trilling (Speaker)
Apr 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Reconstructing the 20th Century Black Archive
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Speaker)
2019
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Thomas Willis’ ‘Imperfect Creatures’ and the Production of the Rational Soul
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Mar 2011
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Chinatown's Modern Image Broker: Pioneering San Francisco Photographer and Film Exhibitor Fong Get
Ramona Curry (Speaker)
Mar 2018
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
The Artful Racial Masquerade of an Early Chinese American Vaudeville and Film Star
Ramona Curry (Speaker)
May 2015
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Zoonosis, Literary History, and the Medical Posthumanities
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Nov 2018
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
But Now Poor Miss Schoepperle Has Been Driven from Urbana: Gertrude Schoepperle and the Medieval Irish Collections at the University of Illinois
Charles D Wright (Speaker)
Oct 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
The Human as Possibility in the Nineteenth-Century Black Sketch
Derrick Spires (Speaker)
Jul 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Fathers and Sons: Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and the Bombay Melodrama in the age of Neoliberalism
Anustup Basu (Speaker)
Jan 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Public Displays of Arousal: EEG Wearables and the Fashioning of Instrumental Intimacy
Melissa Monique Littlefield (Speaker)
May 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Revisiting Assumptions in Historical Research on Literacy: A Necessary Prelude to Activism
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
Apr 8 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Scientia Naturae: Anglo-Saxon Cosmology and the Natural World
Renee Trilling (Speaker)
Apr 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
With "Increased Dignity and Importance": Re-Historicizing Charles Roberts and the Illinois Decision of 1955
Kelly Allison Ritter (Speaker)
Apr 7 2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
It’s All Your Fault: Who’s Really to Blame for the Literacy Crisis?
Dennis E Baron (Speaker)
Mar 24 2007
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
No University Student Left Behind: Writing and the Secretary of Education’s Commission on Higher Education
Dennis E Baron (Speaker)
Mar 24 2006
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Hypocrisy in the Age of Reason: Private Morality, Religious Freedom, and the Styles of Deism
Justine Summerhayes Murison (Speaker)
Oct 2015
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Town, Village, Farm: Another Look at Early Twentieth-Century Mass Literacy
Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)
Mar 18 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Thomas Durfey and the Contradictions of Ecology
Lucinda Cole (Speaker)
Apr 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Sketching Black Citizenship after the 15th Amendment
Derrick Spires (Speaker)
Mar 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Marking Time: The Place of the Human in Anglo-Saxon Cosmology
Renée R. Trilling (Speaker)
Oct 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation