Interdisciplinary Modernism

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Virtual Roundtable: Global South Cinephilias
The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s love of stars, spectacle, and popular genres, seeking out more challenging and complex pleasures. Like the art cinema it promotes, cinephilia has long been viewed as a mostly Euro-American phenomenon, a perception that has obscured rich traditions of film appreciation in Africa, Asia, and…

Interdisciplinary Modernism
 Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop Graduate Student Work-in-Progress Wed. March 16th, 5;00 – 6:30 p.m., Zack Anderson and Nate Dixon, Ph.D. students in English & Creative Writing, will discuss some work in progress. We will pre-circulate their essays and email the Zoom link for the Workshop by March 1st. Contact Susan Rosenbaum (srosenb@uga.edu) for further details.

John Greaney, Fulbright-NUI Postdoctoral Scholar speaks on "Irish Modernism, Memory, and Narrative"
John Greaney, Fulbright-NUI Postdoctoral Scholar 2019/20 at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk titled "Irish Modernism, Memory, and Narrative: the examples of Bowen and Beckett." Greaney lectures and tutors in University College Dublin and Maynooth University. His research interests include modernist studies, Irish studies, critical theory and continental philosophy. His work has been featured in Irish Studies Review and…

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop presents Dr. Walter Kalaidjian, "The Surrealist Bestiary"
Surrealist poets, painters, photographers, and filmmakers not only blurred the distinctions between the rational and irrational, the conscious and the unconscious, dream and waking reality, life and death, but they also subverted the bright line of categorical difference separating humans from animals.  The more bizarre, hybridized, and monstrous the animal kingdom appeared, the better as, “the Surrealist bestiary,” Breton held, “gives…

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop with Jacqueline Ávila (University of Tennessee)
An Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop with Jacqueline Ávila (Associate Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Tennessee) Workshop: Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity in Mexico’s Época de Oro  Dr. Avila's research interests include Mexican modernism, nationalism, and cinema and media studies. She was a recipient of the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant and the American Musicological Society's Howard Meyer…

Emily McGinn, "Networks of Simultaneous Modernities through Latin American Little Magazines"
Dr. McGinn's project uses network analysis to expand the modernist literary canon beyond an Anglo-centric perspective. It graphs the data extracted from Sturgis E Leavitt's 1960 index Revistas Hispanoamericanas: Indice Bibliografico 1843-1935 alongside the data from the Modernist Journals Project to examine the routes of intellectual exchange. The relations among hundreds of contributors to these periodicals trace a plurality of simultaneous…

Elizabeth LeRud, "Antagonistic Cooperation: Poetry, Prose, and American Poetics, 1825-2016"
Lizzy LeRud is the NEH Post-doctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory University's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Oregon in 2017. Her work has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Prose and is forthcoming in A Companion to the Prose Poem. She is currently is working on a book manuscript entitled "Antagonistic Cooperation: American Poetry in an Age of Prose," which uncovers the…

"Exhibited in Photographs," Kathryn Floyd (Auburn University)
"Exhibited in Photographs: Objects, Displays, & the Installation Shots that Define Them" Dr. Kathryn Floyd is Associate Professor of modern art at Auburn University. Her research focuses on 20th-century Germany through the history and historiography of art exhibitions and their mediation in catalogues, installation photographs, and film. Her current book project explores the concept of the “installation shot,” through an…

Dr. Bonnie Costello, "Collecting Ourselves: 'We' in Wallace Stevens"
Professor Costello will discuss her essay titled "Collecting Ourselves: 'We' in Wallace Stevens," which builds on her recently published monograph, The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others (Princeton UP 2017), on modernist poetry's use of the collective pronoun. Professor Costello is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English at Boston University, and a renowned scholar of twentieth-century Anglo-…

"Marianne Moore: Why Editing Matters," Dr. Heather White
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), major American modernist poet and editor, was one of her age’s shiftiest artists. She made, remade, reordered and selectively suppressed her poems many times during her life, making the establishment of a “definitive” Moore canon nearly impossible. The past decade, however, has seen a Renaissance in the editing of her work, revealing a poet quite different from the one her posthumous readers thought they knew. At this…
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