Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities Archives

Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

In 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.
Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

In 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.
Oh! Horror! A Night of Spooky Storytelling

An evening of spooky storytelling with readings by special faculty guests, Jennifer Plante and Gino DiIorio, and other creative Clarkies.
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 […]
Queer Comedy Presents — ‘The Facts of Life: Woolf and the Queer Mock-Biography’

Join us as we launch the three-part “Queer Comedy Presents” series with a lecture by Professor Lauryl Tucker, Associate Professor of English at Sewanee: The University of the South. Funny […]
Queer Comedy Presents: A Night of Stand-Up with Robin Tran

Stand-up comedy rising star Robin Tran is “often edgy, always fiercely intelligent and hilarious” (Queer Review) We’re welcoming Robin Tran for an evening of stand-up comedy! Reservation required » Robin […]
Discovering Photographs Through the Allure of Sound

Photographer David Krooshof studied sociology at the Radboud University Nijmegen and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. He has spent 23 years now at the Academy for […]
In the Early Years: A Photo Retrospective of Clark University, 1893–1914

Join us for a reception celebrating the opening of “In the Early Years: A Photo Retrospective of Clark University, 1893-1914.” This exhibit, curated on the occasion of the Worcester […]
Queer Comedy Presents: The Lesbian Avengers and the Possibilities of Queer Feminist Humor

Join us for a talk with Kirsten Leng, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Leng’s talk also will be streamed live at […]
Community Conversation: Cooking Up Some Scholarship and Creative Work, Together

Please join us for the next installment of our series, Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities. These discussions will provide an opportunity for Clark faculty, […]