We sponsor visiting speakers, a monthly faculty reading group (at which members discuss a recent piece of published scholarship or share their own works-in-progress), and a biennial May faculty seminar for intensive study of interdisciplinary topics.
Next events
Monthly Faculty Reading Group
October 11, 2011
Tim Mahoney, Professor of History, will present a section from his upcoming manuscript titled "From Hometown to Battlefield: Middle Class Experience in the Civil War Era, 1855 -1865."
We'll meet at Yia Yia's Pizza (1423 O Street) from 4.30-6.30PM. Please contact James Garza (jgarza2@unl.edu) for a copy of Tim's paper, to be read in advance.
Visiting Speaker
TBA
Past Events
| Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer |
| Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University |
| William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor and Vilas Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Lilian Furst, Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law at New York Law School and Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark |
| Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History at Boston University |
| Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French and Italian at Indiana University |
| Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia |
| Andrew Miller and David Katzman, editors of Victorian Studies and American Studies, respectively |
| Allan Pasco, Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kansas |
| Vivian Pollak, Professor of English at Washington University at St. Louis |
| Mary Poovey, Director of the Institute for the History of Production of Knowledge at New York University |
| TJ Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer |
| Bertram Wyatt-Brown, President of the Southern Historical Association |