Winter 2023

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”

 

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