Using Theory Lunch Series Events 2007-2008
This series provides a venue for the discussion of theory (broadly construed) from the perspective of literary-critical practice. Faculty or graduate-student volunteers select theoretical readings which have influenced their own work and then lead informal discussions of the readings over lunch (ginger ale and saltines provided). Meetings take place at least once a month on rotating days at 12:30-1:20, unless otherwise noted. Open to all interested faculty and students.
Annotated minutes of our sessions are available for reading and further discussion at Saltines and Ginger Ale.
Friday, September 14th
Michael Warner uses "Footing" by Erving Goffman and "Metapragmatic Discourse and Metapragmatic Function" by Michael Silverstein
Friday, September 28th, LC 213
A special session in preparation for Saturday's Whitney Humanities Center symposium on Cleanth Brooks.
Thursday, October 11th, LC 213
Allyson McCabe uses Louis Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
Tuesday, October 23rd, LC 213
Matthew Valdiviez uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and Jean-Luc Marion's The Erotic Phenomenon
Wednesday, November 14th, LC319
Susan Miller uses Susan Stewart's Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Wednesday, November 28th, LC 319
Amy Hungerford uses Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons and Robert Orsi's Between Heaven and Earth
Thursday, December 6th, LC 213
Paul Grimstad uses Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" and Gilles Deleuze's "Bartleby, ou la Formule"
Tuesday, January 22nd, LC 319
Lisa Zunshine uses Simon Baron-Cohen's Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind and her own Why We Read Fiction
Wednesday, February 6th, LC 319
Wai Chee Dimock uses the debate on digitization in "Remapping Genre," PMLA 122.5
Thursday, February 28th, LC 319
Julia Fawcett uses Peggy Phelan's Unmarked: The Politics of Performance
Wednesday, March 26th, LC 319
Susannah Hollister uses Fredric Jameson's "Cognitive Mapping," Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City, and David Harvey's Spaces of
Hope
Thursday, April 10th, LC 319
Colin Gillis uses Elizabeth Povinelli
Monday, April 21st, LC 319
Patrick Gray uses Sigmund Freud's "On Narcissism: An Introduction" and Heinz Kohut's "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism."
Tuesday, April 29th
Metaprofessionalization Day: to accompany professionalization day, we discuss texts on professionalization and the job market
May: date TBA
Departmental History discussion
Coordinators: Colin Gillis and Andrew Goldstone
