Wednesday, September 5th at 2:30-4:00pm  Cathy Schlund-Vials, “West of the Militarized Zone: Fightin’ Army, Blurred Genres, and the Vietnam War.”

This Brown Bag Talk will take place in the Stern Lounge!

“There’s much that I find rewarding about teaching writing at UConn. I think one of the most rewarding things comes from working with students who are not English majors and who have maybe had bad experiences in the past with English, and helping them to have a positive experience with literature and writing.”  —Jason Courtmanche

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The Chair of the Speakers and Symposia Committee for this academic year has officially announced the dates and times for the following Brown Bag talks for the fall semester:

Wednesday, September 5th at 2:30-4:00pm  Cathy Schlund-Vials, “West of the Militarized Zone: Fightin’ Army, Blurred Genres, and the Vietnam War.”

Wednesday, October 10th at 2:30-4:00pm    Debapriya Sarkar (“‘endlesse error’: The Literary Methods of Early Modern Science.”)

Wednesday, November 14th at 2:30-4:00pm   Sarah Winter (title TBA)

All talks will be in the Stern Lounge after the Department faculty meetings. Details on each talk will be forthcoming.

The UConn Medieval Studies program invites you to a guest lecture by Kathleen Kennedy, “The Puzzle of Abbot Islip’s Book, Tudor Pop Music, and King Henry VIII’s Lady Chapel.” The talk, a book-history detective-story, will be held Friday, August 31, at 4:00 pm in the Stern Lounge (Austin 217), with a dinner reception to follow on campus. Kathleen Kennedy is a scholar of both history and literature in the Middle English and Early Modern periods, the author of Medieval Hackers (2015), has presented for the UConn Medieval Studies program before on the pre-modern global history of the coconut, and is teaching on the history of the book as the Charles A. Owen, Jr., Visiting Professor this Fall 2018 semester.