Recent Negotiations

There have been a number of Negotiations meetings for graduate students to read papers since the last update. On April 18 Corinne Martin and Rachel Collins read papers. Corinne's was titled "'Gifted with All Lore': Lydia Maria Child and the Construction of American Legend," and Rachel's was "'Where all the ground is friendly': Reading Space in Willa Cather's My Antonia."

On September 29 Rachel Collins read "Representing Capital as Landscape: The Naturalization of Corporate Practice in The Octopus" and C.J. Dosch read "A Greenleaf Revolution: Flannery O'Connor's 'Greenleaf' and the New Agricultural South." The flyer appears below.


On October 24 Laurel Ahnert, Mike Dwyer, and Chuck Robinson read papers. Laurel read "Third Cinema Clash: The Politics of Hybridity in Wend Kunni," Mike read "More than a Feeling: Nostalgia and The Historicity of Affect," and Chuck read "Global Designs and Global Desires from Mark Twain to Matt Harding." In November Steven Doles and Ryan McClure read papers. Flyer and titles forthcoming.

Negotiations - February 29

The February Negotiations panel is scheduled for Friday, February 29 at 2:30 pm in 421 HL. Drinks and food at Faegan's to follow.

Negotiations is both a showcase for new scholarship produced by graduate students in the department, and a workshop that offers feedback and criticism for graduate student work in its early stages. Please attend, ask questions, and support the work of your colleagues and your department.


Michael Dwyer will be reading from his work, "Back to the Future and the Fantasy Return to the Fifties", which attempts to understand the role of a particular understanding of "the Fifties" in the rise of the New Right in the 1970s and 1980s.

Chuck Robinson's "The Country and the City (and the Zombie)" uses Raymond Williams' foundational text to inquire into the ambiguous, and ambivalent, place of "the zombie" in contemporary film & culture.

Rounding out the panel will be Ivy Kleinbart, who will read from her paper "'Church-bells beyond the stars heard': Reading Form and Structure in George Herbert's The Temple".

See you all there!

Negotiations February

The February Negotiations panel is scheduled for Friday, February 23 at 2pm in 421 HL.

Negotiations is designed as both a showcase for ongoing work produced by graduate students, and a workshop for papers that go on to be presented and published in the academic community. For this reason, it's important for everyone to attend, to make sure that the papers that have "Syracuse University English Department" attached to them are the very best that they can be. Mark your calendars!

Meghan Boyle will be presenting from her paper "From Nanook of the North to Survivor: The Entertainment of Imperialism."

Rachel Collins will contribute a presentation entitled "'Living was an ache': Authorial Distance and Indentification in Experiments of Class Transvestism".

Finally Soumitree Gupta will read from her "Resignifying Female Desire: Regulation and Resistance in Post-War Psychiatric Melodramas on the Mad Woman".

See you all there!

Negotiations: Spring Schedule

The Spring schedule for the Negotiations Graduate paper series is set, so make sure you mark your calendars and come to support your colleagues, and help to improve the work coming out of the department.

Presenters for this semester will be:
Meghan Boyle, Jared Champion, Rinku Chatterjee, Rachel Collins, Tanushree Ghosh, Soumitree Gupta, Mike O'Connor, Matt Rigilano, and Jon Singleton

Negotiations: April

Negotiations Paper Reading Series December 8

Our final graduate student reading of the fall semester will be held this Friday at 3pm in 421 HL, directly after the PhD advisory meeting with Dympna Callaghan. Three of our second-year students will be presenting their work, followed by a happy hour / end of the semester celebration. Please plan to attend.

The panel:

Sarah Etlinger
Walking the Line: Reading Ambivalence in Edna Ferber

Corinne Martin
'Supplanters of the Tribe': American Exceptionalism and Thoreau's 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers'

Brigitte Fielder-Montero
Pretend Indians: The Fictionality of Literature in David Treuer's Native American Fiction and The Translation of Dr. Apelles

Negotiations: April

Negotiations in April