American Borders

Research Seminar Series, School of American Studies, University of East Anglia

Spring Semester 2013

All seminars, unless otherwise noted, take place on Wednesday 16:00-18:00, in Arts 1.16

*Special AMS-PSI joint seminar* A Majority is the Best Repartee': Barack Obama, Congress, and the Elections of 2012"

Wednesday 9 January

Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

Note: This session will be in Arts 3.02

"‘Anne Frank Lives': Stephanie B. Tolan's The Liberation of Tansy Warner (1980) as Problem Novel"

Wednesday 23 January

Rachael McLennan, UEA

Note: This session will be in Arts 1.07

"‘We Are All Harrisburg': The Three Mile Island Accident and America's ‘Scariest Nuclear Encounter'"

Wednesday 30 January

 Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna

"American Modernism and Irish Culture: Some Poems"

Wednesday 13 February

Tara Stubbs, Oxford University

"On the Edge: The Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic"

Wednesday 27 February

Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex

"The ‘little' New Yorker"

Wednesday 13 March

Becca Weir, Cambridge University

"Mapping ‘The Slave Ship Imprint': The Body, Memory and Representation in the African American and Black British Visual Imaginary"

Wednesday 17 April

Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham