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The Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium was founded by the Graduate English Department at Rutgers to bring together an intellectual community of students and scholars working within the Medieval period, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. We offer various events throughout the year: from coordinating dissertation and article workshops, to hosting critically acclaimed speakers, to organizing reading groups on contemporary scholarship. We aim to create events that will generate lively discussions about the literary, historical, and cultural works from the Medieval and Early Modern periods and to offer a congenial environment in which scholars can exchange ideas. This year we seek to highlight to all of the scholarly and professional resources that Rutgers has to offer, in a time of unprecedented institutional challenges.
Upcoming Events:
October 23 @ 5:30, AB 6051 (CCA)
(Hosted by RBSC) Rachel Weil (Cornell, IAS) will be talking on "The Murder of Thomas Brown: Complaint and Conflict in a Seventeenth-Century Debtor's Prison".
November 7 @ 3:30 pm, AB 6051 (CCA):
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts) will present her work on “Sonic Violence in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi”. She is currently writing a book that situates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals from the ’70s and ’80s within a social and political context.
November 21 @ 2:00 pm, AB 6051 (CCA):
In association with AMESALL, MedRen has invited Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia). Spanning the disciplines of history, literature, and comparative literature, her work focuses on Anglo-Ottoman trade and the role of antiquity in the Early Modern Period. More on the title of her talk soon!
First Week of December (More details soon!)
Javiera Barrientos, a 5th year Phd Student in the Department of Literatures in English, will hold a workshop on archival research for graduate students.Javiera’s work is situated along the routes of bibliographic circulation in the early modern colonial transatlantic with special emphases on the materiality of texts. This workshop will be of interest to students across department lines.
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The Queer Studies Research Group is a graduate reading group that meets several times a semester to read and discuss works of canonical, important, or emerging queer theory, as well as gender, sexuality, and intersectional theory broadly conceived. We also are strongly interested in trans* and queer literature, poetry, and media, including film. We emphasize and support work that recognizes the critical contributions to queer theory of feminism, critical race studies, postcolonial studies, trans studies, disability studies, class studies, and other fields of identity politics and theory. While the Queer Studies Research Group emerges from the English department, we hope to encourage interdisciplinary research and political work, and we are committed to fostering work by our members and within the Rutgers community.
We have drawn on texts across disciplines and discussed various issues including homonormativity; homonationalism; privilege; biopolitcs; the erasure of gender-variant people; compulsory heterosexuality; the systems of race, gender, class, and sexuality; non-Western knowledges; gay marriage; queer of color critiques; the American prison industrial complex; the closet; the white, Euro-centric foundations of queer theory; queer affect theory; the connections between critical race theory and queer theory; the academic appropriation of queer and trans activists; the moral codification of sexual acts; queer utopias; and other topics.
In past semesters, we have read fiction, poetry, and political and theoretical works by Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Judith Halberstam, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Patricia Holland, Leo Bersani, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Achille Mbembe, Michel Foucault, Dena Spade, Jefferey Eugenides, Michael Hames-Garcia, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Eve Sedgwick, Jasbir Puar, David Halperin, and others. We are open, as always, to the suggestions and interests of our members, however, so come and propose something!
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. WRITE BACK: A Public Humanities Forum is a colloquium at Rutgers University that organizes expert panels and workshops, connects members with editors, publishers, and authors doing public-facing work, and hosts writing events and retreats. WRITE BACK has a three-pronged mission statement:
1. To advocate for the importance of public-facing work;
2. To develop skills in pitching, writing, and publishing across various public-facing venues;
3. To foster a supportive writing community in the English department.
Born from a desire to understand the public humanities and its relationship to literature, WRITE BACK is a politically minded thinking group designed to help English PhD students navigate their research at a time in their discipline's history when it is increasingly undervalued and under attack.
We refuse to capitulate to the idea that literature, literary criticism, and literary theory do not have relevance or purpose today
Please come along to any of our events, or email us to join our mailing list, if you have found yourself asking any of the following questions:
- How do we assert the value of literary studies in a world that feels increasingly antagonistic towards literature?
- How can we make literary criticism matter to the general public?
- How do we make our own research more politically meaningful?
- What stakes are we investing in our own writing?