Month: January 2018

New Book by Mai-Lin Cheng: “British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest”

Pictured is Mai-Lin Cheng.

A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng “explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.” British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published…

In Memory: Ursula K. Le Guin

Pictured is Ursula Le Guin speaking at CSWS's 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2013.

January 23, 2018—Like so many others, we are saddened to learn of the passing on Monday of the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The news came through a breaking news announcement in the New York Times. Ursula Le Guin…

7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

Pictured is Laila Lalami.

Free & open to the public 7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories” Printable Poster PDF Panel Discussion: April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 PM  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall,…

“Defective and Deficient: Thinking about ‘Bad’ Bodies” — Eli Clare

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free event Limited seating “All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand different ways. Those words are weapons used to create ‘bad’ and disposable body-minds. Through poetry,…

Queer History Lecture features Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel

Pictured is Regina Kunzel.

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Free & open to the public  “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality” Queer History Lecture Regina Kunzel holds the Doris Stevens Chair and is professor of History and…

Priscilla Ovalle — “From Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness”

Pictured is Priscilla Ovalle.

McKenzie Hall Room 375 1101 Kincaid St. UO Campus Join Priscilla Peña Ovalle (UO Cinema Studies) and guest Leah Aldridge (LMU School of Film and Television) as they discuss their new book projects in a talk titled “From Black Hair…