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Literary Readings
“Día de los Muertos,” Regents’ Professor and acclaimed poet Alberto Ríos. 11/02/09.
The 2009 Department of English graduation reception with an "Abstract" by Peter Turchi and an introduction by Neal A. Lester, 5/12/09.
Shaking up Shakespeare -- In Scenes, Part of "Shaking up Shakespeare." 4/23/09. 29:50 minutes
A Talk with Gary Paul Nabhan, part of "Seeding the Future: A Department of English Fundraiser." 4/18/09. 52:39 minutes
“That Different Yield”: A reading by the Young Adult Writing Project, 6/26/08. 63:05 minutes
“That Different Yield”: A reading by the Young Adult Writing Project, 6/20/07.51:29 minutes
The 2007 Department of English graduation reception with a reading by Terry R. Hummer and an introduction by Cynthia Hogue, 5/9/07. 18:33 minutes
Sapphire Lecture/Reading, part of PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire, 2/28/07. 43:29 minutes
Sapphire Question and Answer session following her reading, 2/28/07. 33:24 minutes
Alberto Ríos delivering the keynote address at the Chandler Celebration of Unity, 1/12/07. 29:06 minutes
Alberto Ríos delivering an inaugural poem called “A Sustainable Courage,” at Governor Janet Napolitano’s inauguration at the state capitol on Jan. 4, 2007. 4:32 minutes
An excerpt from The 2006 Young Adult Writing Project, “A Drive-by Sharing by a Teenage Writing Gang,” 6/21/06. 29:15 minutes
Ron Carlson reading an excerpt from “The Flag Fake Flip and Jailbreak Screen” and the poem “The Reason We Have Schools” at the English Department Graduation Reception, Spring 2006.16:50 minutes
Markus Cruse, Chouki El Hamel, Sylvain Gallais reading “Le Mulâtre” (1837) by Victor Séjour, 4/12/06.43:52 minutes
(MP3 audio) 41:36 minutesThe ASU Antislavery Ensemble videos 3/01/06
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“Spirit of Freedom, Awake”
“My Country ’Tis of Thee”
“Daughters of the Pilgrim Sires”
“God of the Wide Creation”
“Come Join the Abolitionists”
“I Am an Abolitionist”
“God of the Wide Creation” V.2Keith Miller reading “The Natick Resolution” by Henry C. Wright, 2/03/06.
Neal A. Lester reading a selection from the “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher,” 7/01/05.
The 2003 Young Adult Writing Project, “A Drive-by Sharing by a Teenage Writing Gang,” 6/25/03. 29:15 minutesTerry Moore as Walt Whitman in “At Last, An American Bard,” 3/26/03.
David St. John “A Reading,” Introductions by Melissa Pritchard and Norman Dubie, 2/5/03.
Marshall Poet-in-Residence, with Russell Edson, 4/12/01.
Esther Frank Memorial Poetry Reading, featuring William Olsen and Nancy Eimers, 11/02/00.
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Critical Analysis
"Shaking up Shakespeare: An Actor's Perspective" with Harry Lennix and Ayanna Thompson, 4/24/09.
"Shaking up Shakespeare: Performances, Behind the Scenes, Hip Hop and Discussion" Actor Harry Lennix (The Matrix series; Titus), David Hemphill (Black Theatre Troupe), David Tinsley (Black Theatre Troupe), professor Camilla Westenberg (Phoenix College), and professor Ayanna Thompson (ASU), 4/24/09.
The Fletcher Lecture 2008-2009, "Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" by Anne K. Mellor (UCLA), 4/22/09.
"Approaching The Breaking Point?: The United States-Canada Border In The 21st Century" by Victor Konrad (Carleton University, Ottawa & Western Washington University), 4/15/09.
"The Creolization of Theory" by Shu-mei Shih (UCLA) & Francoise Lionnet (UCLA), 3/19/09.
Professor Gregory Castle - "Wilde Things: The American Tour of 1882 and the Aesthetics of Irish Modernism," 3/17/09.
“So Let It Be Done: Confronting Fears and Fulfilling the Promise” Dr. Matthew Whitaker, keynote address from “Choosing the Future: Critical Issues in American Life” Undergraduate Academic Conference, 10/18/08.
Zoe Trodd, Tutorial Board, Committee on History and Literature, Harvard University, reading “A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism,” (PowerPoint). With respondent Stanlie James, director, African and African American Studies, Arizona State University, 4/14/08. 1:01:39 minutes
Dr. David Holmes, associate professor in English (Pepperdine University), visiting associate professor, ASU reading “(Re) Dressing the KKK: Fred Shuttlesworth’s Precept Hermeneutic and the Rhetoric of African American Prophetic Patriotism,” 3/26/08. 30:25 minutes
“Acting While Black,” a conversation with Harry J. Lennix, 2/08/08. 1:29:22 minutes
K. L. Cook, associate professor of English, Prescott College, presenting “Short Story Cycles, Linked Stories, and Novels-in-Stories” as part of the Arizona Universities Faculty Exchange Lecture Series, 4/4/07. 43:53 minutes
Handout (Word).Donelle Ruwe, assistant professor of English, Northern Arizona University, presenting “Botanical Rambles: Romanticism, Nature Walks, and the Dissemination of Associationist Philosophy” as part of the Arizona Universities Faculty Exchange Lecture Series, 3/30/07. 41:33 minutes
PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire, 2/28/07.
Symposium Welcome by Neal A. Lester. 3:13 minutes
“Push: Overview and Undergraduate Student Presentations” (UCLUB)
Moderator: Elizabeth McNeil
Presenters: Caryn Bird, Katherine Giovacchini, Monica Van Steenberg. 22:59 minutesVernacular and Literacy: Transforming the Self with the Word (UCLUB)
Chair: Angelita D. Reyes
“Locating Sites for Writing and Personal Transformation in Sapphire’s Push.”
Lynette Myles, Arizona State University. 22:44 minutes“‘He my shiny brown boy:’ African American Maternal Vernacular in Sapphire’s Push”
Terri Pantuso, The University of Texas at San Antonio.17:18 minutesRhythm, Challenge and Change in Sapphire’s Poetry and Short Stories (UCLUB)
Chair: Richard Mook
“Some of Sapphire’s Blues Notes”
Michael Pfister, Arizona State University. 25:31 minutes“Uncollected, Dedicated, and Contributed: Sapphire’s earlier work”
Steven Reigns, Poet and Independent Scholar. 13:14 minutesMotherhood and Trauma: Understanding the Self by Moving Past the Pain (UCLUB)
Chair: Egyirba High
“Explaining Ourselves: A Rewriting and Recollection of Personhood”
Nina R. Candia, University of Maryland, College Park. 18:57 minutes“Dysfunctional Sex: Social and Familial Isolation in Contemporary Victimization Narratives”
Erin Vonnahme, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. 14:31 minutesThe Body and Space: Environmental and Ecofeminist Approaches to PUSH (UCLUB)
Chair: Peter Goggin
“125th Street Transcendentalism”
Dan Shilling, Sharlot Hall Museum and Arizona State University. 13:23 minutes“Sapphire’s Literary Freak Show: The Ecofeminist Landscape of Push”
Elizabeth McNeil, Arizona State University. 13:24 minutes“Teaching Environmental Justice Themes in Push”
Joni Adamson, Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus. 17:43 minutesAge and the Page: Young Adult Literature and Secondary Education (UCLUB)
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen
“Pushing the Envelope in Young Adult Literature”
James Blasingame, Arizona State University. 45:24 minutesSlavery and Antislavery: A New Research and Teaching Workshop, 10/13/06
Joe Lockard, Arizona State University, “Introduction”
Timothy McCarthy, Harvard University, “Antislavery Protest Literature in 19th-Century America: Teaching the Untaught”
Angelita Reyes, Arizona State University, “Elusive Autobiographies: Reading Slavery’s Vernacular Artifacts”
Stephen Marc, Arizona State University, “Passage on the Underground Railroad: Making and Teaching the Photography of Slavery”
Kay Norton, Arizona State University, “The Music of Slavery and Antislavery: Researching and Teaching Hymnology”
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University, reading “Prophets of Protest: Literary Abolitionism and the Aesthetics of Equality,” 10/12/06
American Protest Literature Lecture Videos (Harvard University) from “Literature and Arts A-86: American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” (in cooperation with the Antislavery Literature Project and Harvard University
The 2005-2006 Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture featuring Jerome J. McGann, the John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English at the University of Virginia, “Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities,” 3/28/06. 45.36 minutes (MP3 audio).
Question/Answer following the talk (MP3 audio). 18:25 minutesJoe Lockard, “Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of Antislavery Poetry,” 3/23/06. 23.23 minutes
(Text in PDF)Joe Lockard, “William Still and Philadelphia’s African American Underground,” 3/23/06. 42.10 minutes
(Text in PDF)A Scholarly Discussion of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. 3/31/04
Introduction by Dr. Martin Levin, Diane Wolfthal, School of Art
Rosalynn Voaden, Department of English
Allison Coudert, Religious Studies
Jay Boyer, Department of English
The 2002 Ian Fletcher Lecture: Lennard J. Davis, “Race, Disability and the New Genomics,” 11/13/03.
The Many Faces of Elizabeth I. The 2003 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium
“Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I” by Fred Kiefer, 10/4/03
“Elizabeth R, the First Royal Movie Star” by Ron Newcomer, 10/4/03
“Elizabeth of England and Mary of Scotland” by Retha Warnicke, 10/4/03
The 2003 Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium Keynote,“Rebels With a Cause: Henry James, George Herbert, and Geoffrey Chaucer” by Chauncey Wood, 3/28/2003
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Behind The Lord of the Rings. The 2002 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium
“The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: Hobbit Poetry” by Randel Helms, 11/2/2002
“Turning Tolkien’s Prose into the Visual Language of Film” by Ron Newcomer, 11/2/2002
“Trees, Chainsaws, and the Visions of Paradise in J.R.R. Tolkien” by Tom Shippey, 11/2/2002
The 2002 Ian Fletcher Lecture: Patrick Brantlinger, “Cannibals and Missionaries.” 10/24/2002
Marshall Chair candidate: Norman Finkelstein, “You Have to be Tricked into It: Writing (and Reading) the Serial Poem” 4/1/02
Marshall Chair candidate: Cynthia Hogue, “On Marianne Moore from Another Postmodernism: Towards an Ethical Poetics” 3/27/02
Marshall Chair candidate: Juliana Spahr, “Poetry in a Time of Crisis” 3/25/02
Colloquium: Thelma Shinn Richard, “Literary Bridges from the USA and the RSA” 2/27/02.
“Renovating the National Imaginary: A ‘New’ Body for the Patriotic Public Sphere” with Barbara Biesecker, 4/12/01
The Ian Fletcher Lecture features Mary Louise Pratt reading, “Modernity and Globality or What brought the Virgin of Zapopan to Los Angeles,” 2/22/01
“Orlan’s Vision of the Interdisciplinary Future,” 2/27/01
Mark Lussier, “Resisting Critical Erasure, or Blake Beyond Postmodernity,” 10/18/00
N. Katherine Hayles “Romantic Bits: Embedded in Media,” 9/16/00
Department Events
ASU Founders’ Day Faculty Teaching Award winner Maureen Daly Goggin. Comments by Neal A. Lester and Maureen Daly Goggin, 3/6/06. 3:55 minutes
Department of English 2001 graduation reception
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 2000 Conference Introduction and Graduate student awards, 9/16/00
GPAWP (Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project)
Tino Gomez, 6/9/03
GSEA Professional Development Workshops
Conference presentations, Christina Francis and Ryan Muckerheide, 3/12/03
External English Department Related Video
“Poet’s New Work Chronicles a Couple’s Love” PBS feature on Alberto Ríos
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