Please join us on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 12pm for our next Mellon workshop! We will be meeting at 12pm in the English department's Barker Room (70 Brown Street, Room 315). We are excited to host Professor Sean McCann, professor of English at Wesleyan University. He specializes
in post-Civil War American Literature, specifically in relation to
contemporaneous political developments and discourses. He is the author
of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and
Presidential Government (Princeton UP, 2008) and Gumshoe
America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal
Liberalism (Duke UP, 2000), which received honorable
mention for the America Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize
for the best book in American Studies. His essays have appeared in
American Quarterly, The Common Review, ELH, Radical History Review,
Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in American Fiction, the Yale
Journal of Criticism, as well as several edited volumes including Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom (St. Martin's Press, 1999). Professor McCann will be workshopping two pieces with the group, both of which are available on the google site, along with selections from his previous work (log-in required). Lunch will be provided. Please join us for our conversation!
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