Guest Lecture in the English Dept. Wednesday, July 27th, 3 pm

[Jay Dolmage]

I am excited to announce an upcoming guest lecture in the English department:

>From Montreal to Boston: Mystery Authors and a Secret Cache of 19th
Century Canadian writings

Wednesday, July 27th, 3 pm, Hagey Hall 150

Jennifer Harris is Associate Professor of English at Mount Allison
University and Vice-President of the Canadian Association of American
Studies. Her essays have appeared in African American Review, Journal of
American Culture, Resources for American Literary Study, and elsewhere. In
addition to her editorial work (including eight volumes of the Alphabet
City cultural studies book series with MIT Press) she has been a Fulbright
Fellow and SSHRC recipient. She is currently a visiting scholar at the
University of Waterloo.

Abstract:
The search for writings about a late-eighteenth century American writer
led to the accidental resolution of a scholarly disagreement about the
identity of a mysterious—albeit admittedly minor—19thC Canadian writer,
T.D. Foster. Following Foster’s trail uncovered a network of writing women
spanning two countries and generations, all on the way to a previously
unknown and rather riotous story by Catherine Parr Traill replete with
dead kittens and an impertinent pup. This talk traces the process,
considering the ways in which these revelations might inflect thinking
about the relevant authors, their interrelations and writing practices, as
well as print communities.


-- 
Jay Dolmage, Ph.D
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Assistant Professor of English
University of Waterloo
Department of English
Hagey Hall of Humanities Building
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x36803
Fax: 519 746 5788
dolmage at uwaterloo.ca