SPRING 2017 English Department Colloquium Series
All events held in KUY 410 unless otherwise indicated.
1/12 3:00 Department meeting
1/19 3:00 Jose Cortez, U. of Arizona, candidate for Comp/Rhet position
1/25 6:00 Reading by Visiting Distinguished Writer Ann Pancake
1/26 3:00 John Gagnon, U of Michigan, candidate for Comp/Rhet position
1/31 3:00 “Teaching Gender Identity: Beyond the Binary.” Workshop on non-Binary Gender Identification conducted by Camaron Miyamoto, Director, UH Mānoa LGBTQ+ Center
2/1 3:00 “Teaching Gender Identity: Beyond the Binary.” Workshop on non-Binary Gender Identification conducted by Camaron Miyamoto, Director, UH Mānoa LGBTQ+ Center
2/2 3:00 Adam Miyashiro, Stockton U, candidate for Medieval/Early Modern position
2/9 3:00 Ann Shivers-McNair, U of Washington, candidate for Comp/Rhet position
2/16 3:00 Panel for students participating in CCCC, organized by Daphne Desser, Georganne Nordstrom, and Sarah Allen
2/23 3:00 Derrick Higginbotham, U of Cape Town, candidate for Medieval/Early Modern position
3/2 3:00 Adam Goldwyn, North Dakota State U, candidate for Medieval/Early Modern position
3/7 3:00 Marjorie Liu, Chadwick lecture, “Be Fearless: Writing About Race, Sexuality, and Feminism”
3/8 7:00, Art Auditorium: Reading by Junot Diaz
3/9 10:30 Marjorie Liu workshop, “The Art of Writing Comics”
3/9 3:30, BusAd A102: Junot Diaz, “I Will Build A Great Wall: Notes On Borders, Immigrants and the Future in the Age of Trump”
3/10 10:30 Junot Diaz workshop, Ah Quon McElrath Room, George Hall 301B, “The First Impulse: One Immigrant POC’s Guide to Surviving Activism, Academia and Ourselves”
3/14 3:00 David Baker, UNC Chapel Hill, “Making M.A.C.M.O.R.R.I.S: A Digital Early Modern Ireland”
3/16 3:00 Pauline Greenhill, U of Winnipeg, “Transforming Cinderellas and Cinderfellas: Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Fairy-Tale Films”
3/23 3:00 Reading by Rob Spillman, Words @ Manoa series
4/6 3:00 Department Chair Election meeting
4/12 6:00 Reading by Sesshu Foster, Words @ Manoa series
4/13 3:00 Graduate Program Assessment meeting
4/20 3:00 Judith Lee, Ohio University, “American Humor and Matters of Empire”
4/21 3:30 Book launch for Valerie Wayne’s Arden Shakespeare edition of Cymbeline and John Rieder’s Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (Wesleyan UP)
4/26 6:00 Reading & Performance by Andrea Hairston, Words@ Manoa series
4/27 3:00 Department meeting on hiring priorities
5/4 12:00 Department party