Visual and Material Cultures Working Group
In this working group, we explore the relationships between literature and the visual and object worlds that inform it. Combining the the material histories and historical materialism of “thing theory” and the scopic histories and aesthetic genealogies of the “visual turn,” we will consider the ways in which literature responds to the presence of the object outside of itself.
Colonial Latin American Art, Literature, and Visual Culture Working Group
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Transnational & Ethnic American Studies Working Group
TEASWG, now in its tenth year, exists to create an interdisciplinary conversation about postcolonial and transnational methods of scholarly inquiry in American Studies.
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Townsend Working Group in Contemporary Art
The goal of the Townsend Center Working Group in Contemporary Art is to broaden conversations across disciplines and institutions. Scholarship in contemporary art occurs across many departments on campus well beyond History of Art—Rhetoric/Film Studies, New Media, Art Practice—yet most opportunities for interaction are either extremely narrow (e.g. the personal conversation, the classroom) or broad (e.g. the public lecture, the exhibition). Our aim is to establish an intimate forum that fosters conversation and information sharing among faculty, curators, students and artists.
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Visual Cultures Writing Group
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