ampersand - department of english · 2020. 6. 14. · 11/11: sf reading group, parker library —...

Ampersand

Reminders

10/31: Spring Semester Book Orders due

11/9: Faculty Meeting— IMU Dogwood Room, 4-5p

Notables and New Books

John Lucaites “The Public Image” (Chicago: University of

Chicago, 2016).

Catherine Bowman “Can I Finish, Please?” (Four Way

Books, 2016).

Congratulations to Rachel Seiler-Smith, Kate Blake, Whitney

Sperrazza, and Brooke Opel on winning the CAHI Conference /

Travel Award.

Upcoming

10/25: Social Victorians practice presentations — Mary Christian + Beth Bevis

Hazelbaker Hall (E159) — 12-1:30pm

10/25: Professor Kate Lilley lecture — “Museum Quality: Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-

West, and the Sapphic Early/Modern”

IMU Sassafras Room— 4-6pm

10/26: Polish Literature and Its Languages, Woodburn Hall 121 — 6pm

10/27: Social Victorians practice presentations— Mary Borgo

IQ Wall (157H) — 3-4pm

10/28-29: “Affairs of the Heart: Medieval Cardiologies” (click poster for details)

11/4: Monika Kaup lecture— “Antinomies of the 21st Century Neobaroque”

Global + International Studies Building 1112 — 3:30pm

11/11: SF Reading Group, Parker Library — 1-3pm

12/9: SF Reading Group, BH 345— 1-3pm

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH—IUB

Vol. 1, Issue 4

“Read not the Ampersand. Read the Eternities.” –Henry David Thoreau

Send items for the next Ampersand to kpoint@indiana.edu

Notes

Social Media Mavens: be sure to check out IUB English on Facebook & Twitter! (@EnglishIUB).

A well-deserved shout-out to Sam Tett, our first Twitter star! Sam’s Narnia inspired tweet in the #TrumpBookReport genre

went viral! 2344 retweets, 4419 likes and counting!!!

Forged Beauty— Listen to Ellen Mackay discuss the gorgeous compilation of Shakespeare’s Forgeries houses at the Lilly

Library here.

Read Mallory Cohn’s excellent scholarly push-back in Playborhoods and the Myth of Normal Childhoods.