Postponed Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
A Clark Faculty Series Event Presented by Elizabeth Blake, PhD Assistant Professor of English Clark University Forbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality, a […]
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FeaturedThe Contemporary History of Radical Black Feminisms: Past, Present, and Futuremaking
This lecture and Q&A will feature Demita Frazier, a Black feminist, writer, teacher, and social justice activist, who will offer reflections on the history and future of Black Feminisms.
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Chowder Fest
English HouseThe English Department cordially invites you to Chowder Fest!
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A/An: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
Dana Commons, Higgins LoungeIn this book launch, Professor Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez reads from their poetry chapbook. A/An, which uses 17th-century court records of the Salem Witch Trials to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.
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FeaturedWassail: Celebrate Winter with the English Department
Anderson HouseFinish your semester with a sweet, cozy event celebration of winter.
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The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesNathan Braccio, Assistant Professor of History at Clark University, explores how both Algonquian-speaking communities and English colonists made maps as tools in a struggle for cultural and physical control of the Northeast.
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Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesIn this talk, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake (English) focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience.
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Critical AI, Predatory Data, & Community Resistance
CMACD Buliding- 103, 104 Clark University, Worcester, MA, United StatesDr. Anita Say Chan will discuss her most recent book and her experiences working with the Illinois Data Clinic. Dr. Chan serves as professor at the School of Information Science, […]
