AMS Research Seminar Series: Spring 2013

American Borders

Research Seminar Series, School of American Studies

University of East Anglia

 

 

SPRING SEMESTER 2013

 

All seminars, unless otherwise noted, take place on Wednesday 16:00-18:00, in Arts 1.16

 

 

Jan 9^th                                                     *Special AMS-PSI joint seminar*

“‘A Majority is the Best Repartee’: Barack Obama, Congress, and the Elections of 2012”

Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

Note: This session will be in Arts 3.02

 

 

Jan 23^rd                                 “‘Anne Frank Lives’: Stephanie B. Tolan’s The Liberation of Tansy Warner (1980) as Problem Novel”

Rachael McLennan, UEA

Note: This session will be in Arts 1.07

 

 

Jan 30^th                                 “‘We Are All Harrisburg’: The Three Mile Island Accident and America’s ‘Scariest Nuclear Encounter’”

                                                Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna

 

 

Feb 13^th                                “American Modernism and Irish Culture: Some Poems”

Tara Stubbs, Oxford University

 

 

Feb 27^th                                “On the Edge: The Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic”

Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex

 

 

Mar 13^th                               “The ‘little’ New Yorker”

Becca Weir, Cambridge University

                                               

 

Apr 17^th                                “Mapping ‘The Slave Ship Imprint’: The Body, Memory and Representation in the African American and Black British Visual Imaginary”

Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham