Monday, October 8, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The Center for American Literary Studies Symposium
Students are welcome to attend any or all sessions of the “Turn, Turn, Turn” Symposium.
In the past decade literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions that have been characterized as “turns,” including (but far from limited to) the spatial, temporal, postnational, hemispheric, secular, and ethical turns. Symposium participants will reflect theoretically and methodologically on the moments in which the field of literary studies seems to gather itself and venture in presumably new directions. More broadly, we will meditate on the moments in Americanist literary criticism when momentums shift, when an approach practiced by a few becomes a movement, when there is impetus for change in a field.
For more information: http://english.la.psu.edu/events/turn-turn-turn-cals-fall-symposium