Presenter: Emma Lipton, with Anita Bergeson. Articles: Joan Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of
Historical Analysis," and Judith Bennett, "Medievalism and Feminism." Ý
September 30--current scholarship in Renaissance/early
modern studies.
Presenter--Lisa Celovsky. Reading--Phyllis Rackin, "Historical Difference/Sexual
Difference," and Michael Dobson, "Cold Front in Arden,(book
review). Ý
Presenters: Misty Anderson and Jeremy Webster Reading--Michael McKeon, "Historicizing Patriarchy:
The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760," with selections
from Pamela and Fanny Hill. Ý
October 28--current scholarship in African-American Studies
and Performance Theory.
Presenters: Candace Jones and Debby Geis Reading--Ann Ducille, "The Occult of True Black Womanhood,"
in Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism,ed.
Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen.Ý Rebecca Schneider, from
The
Explicit Body in Performance, London and NY: Routledge, 1997. Ý
November 11--current scholarship in Nineteenth-Century
American Studies.
Presenters: Mary Papke and Gina Rossetti Reading: "No More Separate Spheres," Cathy Davidson,
"Poor Eliza," Lauren Berlant, Myra Jehlen. Discussion
notes for the meeting. Ý
December 9--current scholarship in Nineteenth-Century
British Studies.
Presenters: Nancy Goslee and Casey Cothron Reading: TBA
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January 20--current scholarship in Modernism and Twentieth
Century Studies
Presenters: Stephanie Thompson, Victoria Raschke,
and Matt Forsythe.