CENCL Events

Dustin Stewart is the James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His essays have recently appeared in ELH, New Literary History, and Representations. Dr. Stewart is the author of Futures of Enlightenment Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2020), which was awarded the Louis Gottschalk Prize for outstanding historical or critical study on the…

Nasser Mufti is Associate Professor and Associate Head of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His research brings together nineteenth-century British and postcolonial literatures, paying particular attention to literary approaches to the study of nationalism. Dr. Mufti is the author of Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Northwestern, 2018), which won the 2019 Gustave O. Arlt Award and was the runner…

UGA's Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Franklin College Office of Inclusion & Diversity Leadership presents: "for dead weight": Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture," a lecture by a 2019 Franklin Visiting Fellow, Dr. Patricia Matthew (Associate Professor, Montclair State University) When British abolitionists called for a sugar boycott in the late 1790s, they pointed to women as…

This will be a workshop of a pre-circulated paper. Please email Casie LeGette (legette@uga.edu) to be sent a copy. Sponsored by the Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature.

Donelle Ruwe is the Associate Chair of English at Northern Arizona University and is the author of British Children’s Poetry in the Romantic Era: Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), the editor of Culturing the Child 1660-1830 (2005), and co-editor of the forthcoming Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater. She has published numerous essays on Romantic poetics, women writers, and children’s writing, and she is currently…

On October 31st UGA will take part in Frankenreads: an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the NEH.  The Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary is sponsoring a nearly-complete reading of the novel in collaboration with the Main Library, The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the…

"Global Aestheticism and the Invention of Japan: Cosmopolitan Encounters around 1900," a lecture by Stefano Evangelista In ‘The Decay Of Lying’ (1889), Oscar Wilde declared that ‘the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.’ Wilde’s provocative statement makes fun of the fashion for japonisme that was sweeping across Europe and North America in the late nineteenth century, providing inspiration…

Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal and Principal Investigator of the Montreal-based Interacting with Print Research Group. His work focuses on British literature from 1750-1850, where his research explores the role of literature in constructing historical and temporal experience, including the uses of antiquity, the anticipation of the future, and practices of reading. His research has been…

On October 31st UGA will take part in Frankenreads: an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the NEH.  The Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary is sponsoring a nearly-complete reading of the novel in collaboration with the Main Library, The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Theatre and Film…

This talk looks at how handmade artifacts enabled connections with British colonial spaces in imaginative, material, and tactile ways. It examines objects created by women that made use of a mixture of global sources for their material composition and visual inspiration. What kind of alternative stories of empire are told through intercultural crafts? And what tales might unfold around handheld objects in British novels set in the eighteenth-…