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VCU Department of English

Spring 2000

Richard Priebe with David Latané
"Writing and Getting an NEH Grant: Two Perspectives"
(February)

Catherine Ingrassia
"Gendered Discourse and the Early Novel: Pamela, Shamela and Anti-Pamela"
(March)

Janet Winston
"From the Diamond Jubilee to the Silver Screen: Queen Victoria's Imperial Image and Nazi Cinema"
(April)

Fall 1999

Charlotte Morse
"Griselda Reads Philippa de Coucy"
(September)

Elizabeth Savage
"How to Do Things with Words: Reading Riding's and Retallack's Poetics"
(October)

Jonathan Silverman
"Re-Imagining America: Marginal Group Expression Between the Wars"
(November)

Spring 1999

Elizabeth Cooper
"Native and Non-Native Hypertext"
(February)

Nicholas Frankel
"The Meaning of Margin: White Space and Disagreement in Whistler's 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies'"
(March)

Terry Hummer
"The Boundaries of Poetry: Contemporary American Poetics and the New Regionalism"
(April)

Fall 1998

Richard Priebe
"Interpretation and Misinterpretation of African Literature in the American Classroom"
(September)

Marita Golden
"Autobiography as Mirror and Shadow: The Seductions of the Self"
(October)

Bill Griffin
"Good Students Reading Shakespeare"
(November)


Spring 1998

John Pendergast
"Language Acquisition and Shakespeare's Early Comedies"
(February)

Larry Laban
"Of True Greatness:  An Inquiry into the Rhetoric of Henry Fielding, as Illustrated in the Characterization of the Hero"
(March)

Ann Woodlief
"Creating a (Virtual) Interpretive Community"
(April)


Fall 1997

Richard Fine
"Who Owns What Writers Write? 
American Authors and Intellectual Property
"
(September)

Gary Sange
"Originality and Imitation:
The Dynamics of Poetry
"
(October)

Walter Coppedge
"Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood"
(November)


Spring 1997

Elisabeth Kuhn
"Cross-Cultural Challenges for German Women Professors in the United States Classroom"
(February)

George Longest
"The Green Gate of Genius: Charles F. Gillette
and the Changing Face of Virginia"

(March)

David Latané
"Some Intertextual Instances"
(April)


Fall 1996

Bill Griffin
"Teaching Shakespeare: A Report"
(September)

Patricia Perry
"Beyond Naming Writing: Freirian Conscientizationin the College Composition Classroom"
(October)

Carmen Gillespie
"(Re)member the Present: African-American Narrativesat the Cross-roads"
(November)


Spring 1996

Bryant Mangum
"A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Work in Progress"
(February)

Richard Priebe
"Making the Invisible Visible: What We Can Learn From African Popular Writing"
(March)

Greg Donovan
"Poetry as Fiction—What Will Suffice?"
(April)


Fall 1995

Charlotte Morse
"The Modern Griselda"
(September)

Marguerite Harkness
"Engendering the Apocalypse: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse"
(October)

James Kinney
"Joel Chandler Harris and the New South Movement: 'Free Joe' and the Race Issue"
(November)


Spring 1995

Laura Browder
"'Imaginary Jews': Elizabeth Stern's Autobiography as Amnesia"
(February)

Tom DeHaven
"Don't Change Anything / Change Everything: Adapting Fiction to Film"
(March)

Catherine Ingrassia
"Text, Lies and the Marketplace: Eliza Haywood and the Literary Marketplace at Mid-Century"
(April)


Fall 1994

Maurice Duke
"How to Write Someone Else's Book"
(September)

Boyd Berry
"Everything Happened in the 1590's; or Ventriloquizing the Homeless and Women in Early Modern England"
(October)

Nick Sharp
"Rhetoric of the Jacobean Court (1603-1625)"
(November

 

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