January 18
Dean Mathiowetz, UC Santa Cruz
“Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling”
January 25
Monique Allewaert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism”
February 1
Linda Garber, Santa Clara University
“The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction”
February 8
Jarrod Shanahan, Governors State University
“Skyscraper Jails”
February 15
Keya Ganguly, University of Minnesota
“Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)”
February 22
Richard Jean So, McGill University
“How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism”
March 8
Hannah Zeavin, Indiana University
“Hot and Cool Mothers”
March 15
Zac Zimmer, UC Santa Cruz
“An Internet Built of Books”