Upcoming Talks at the University Seminar in American Studies...
The University Seminar in American Studies will be meeting online through the fall, so look to this space for links to our sessions. As in previous years, we have invited scholars from a range of fields and disciplines associated with American Studies, to present works-in-progress in a collaborative context. We have sought to include people who are just starting out in their careers as well as those with established research records. It is an urgent moment to consider the contradictions of American culture and history, so we hope very much that you’ll join us at our upcoming meetings. Mark your calendars!
9/22 - Westenley Alcenet is an assistant professor of History at Fordham University. His research focuses on the early Black Atlantic, abolitionism, and Reconstruction, especially narratives of African-American emigration to Haiti. His academic writing has appeared in The Journal of Haitian Studies and Politics, Religion and Ideology. He has written public historical commentary at The Root, The Immanent Frame, Black Perspectives, and Jacobin.
10/20 - Sarah Blackwood is associate professor of English at Pace University and author of The Portrait’s Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States (UNC, 2019). She is co-editor of the “Avidly Reads” short book series with NYU Press, and editor of the Penguin Classics centennial edition of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slate, The Hairpin, and the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as American Literature, the Henry James Review, and MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States.
11/17 - Julio Capo Jr. is associate professor of History at Florida International University and author of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (UNC, 2017). His research centers on the United States’s relationship to the Caribbean and Latin America, and especially how gender and sexuality have historically intersected with constructions of ethnicity, race, class, nation, age, and ability. His work has appeared in the Journal of American History, Radical History Review, Diplomatic History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Modern American History, GLQ, H-Net, American Studies, and several volumes.
12/8 - Diane Detournay is a lecturer in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University and is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Feminism, Race, and the Category of ‘Woman’: The Civilizational Architecture of Women's Rights.” Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Parallax and Transgender Studies Quarterly as well as several anthologies.
1/26 - Sasha Panaram is assistant professor of English at Fordham University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 2020. Her research, which focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century African American and Caribbean literature, brings together discourses in slavery studies, Black feminisms, and geography studies. Her writing has been published in The Black Scholar.
2/23 - Autumn Womack is assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. Womack’s research is located at the intersection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literary culture, visual studies, and print culture. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled "Un-discipling Data: Race, Visuality, and the Making of African American Literary Aesthetics, 1880-1930." Her writing has been published in Black Camera, American Literary History, Women and Performance, J19, and The Paris Review.
3/23 - Howard Rambsy II is a professor of literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he teaches courses on American and African American literature. He has written articles and curated mixed media exhibits focusing on literary history, poetry, and the intersections of race and technology. He is the author of two books, The Black Arts Enterprise (Michigan, 2011) and Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (Virginia, 2020). His writing has appeared in a number of academic journals, including American Studies, The Mississippi Quarterly, The African American Review, Southern Quarterly, the Journal of Ethnic American American Literature, MELUS, and the PMLA.
4/20 -Benjamin Balthaseris associate professor of English and author of Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Michigan, 2015). His research focuses on the relationships among social movements, racial identity, and cultural production. His critical and creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and publications such as American Quarterly, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Reconstruction, Criticism, In These Times, Cultural Logic, Minnesota Review, the Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere.
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