Duke-UNC Americanist Speaker Series: A Graduate Works in Progress

Please save the date for the next Duke-UNC Americanist Speaker Series: A Graduate Works in Progress on February 29^th from 7:30-9:30 pm at 2605 McDowell Road. Please consider attending to give your support and feedback to graduate students in our community. Refreshments provided. 

We are excited to announce our four contributors and their presentation titles:

• Julia Gordon - "Self-Creation of American Man and Mythology in Shane" 
• Trivius Caldwell - "Counterpublic Discourse: Music that Marks Violence as an Evolutionary Event"
• Jordan Williamson - "'A ghost at your shoulder': Stephen Crane's Black Riders and Automatic Production"
• Colin Dekeersgieter -  "Audre Lorde's House of Difference: Queer Trauma and the Poetics of Domesticity"