Spring 2018 Colloquium
This past Monday, April 9, the department hosted two visiting professors for our annual English Department Colloquium.
Dr. Cristobal Silva, from Columbia University, is currently writing a book titled Republic of Medicine, which is a literary history of the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world that examines the interchange of pathogens, treatments, and medical narratives that shadowed the slave trade. He is also the author of Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative. For the Colloquium, Dr. Silva presented on "The Silent History of Nostalgia."
Dr. Pearl Brilmyer, from the University of Pennsylvania, is currently working on a book project entitled that concerns the philosophical implications of the disarticulation of character from plot in late Victorian realism. She has recently published in PMLA, Representations, and Victorian Studies. For the Colloquium, Dr. Brilmyer presented on "George Eliot and the Body Semiotic."
Dr. Cristobal Silva, from Columbia University, is currently writing a book titled Republic of Medicine, which is a literary history of the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world that examines the interchange of pathogens, treatments, and medical narratives that shadowed the slave trade. He is also the author of Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative. For the Colloquium, Dr. Silva presented on "The Silent History of Nostalgia."
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