On November 10, Marco Abel gave an invited lecture (via Zoom), “The New Munich Group and ’60s Political Cinema in West Germany,” at Virginia Commonwealth University, drawing on his work-in-progress on the so-called Neue Münchner Gruppe around Klaus Lemke and Rudolf Thome of the mid- to late-1960s.
James Brunton’s paper “Teaching Deconstruction Today: Deconstruction in a Social Justice-Oriented Classroom” has been accepted to be presented at the Derrida Today Conference, which will take place in Washington, D.C., in June.
Timothy J. Cook delivered a paper on November 5 at the 62nd Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention that was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a part of the panel “Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy,” Cook shared his work “H. D. and the Act of Poetic Protest: London, the Blitz, and the Forging of Trilogy.” He is grateful to UNL’s English department for providing financial assistance while attending the conference.
Melissa Homestead was recently the “expert reader” guest on the “Talk of Iowa” book club for a discussion of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia.
Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri presented his ongoing DH project, The Ardhi Initiative, at the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The Ardhi Initiative encodes and curates colonial land treaties.
Fall Steinbeck Fellows Reading: An Evening with the 2021-2022 Steinbeck Fellows in Creative Writing - Join 2021-2022 Steinbeck Fellows Uche Okonkwo, Rose Himber Howse, and Brian Trapp for an evening of readings and Q & A on Thursday, December 2, at 7 PM (PST).