Critical Studies: A Colloquium
The Annual Conference of The School of Criticism and Theory
April 23-24, 1999
FRIDAY APRIL 23, 1999
8:45 am Welcoming Remarks
Stanley Fish, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC
Introduction
Stephen G. Nichols, Director, School of Criticism and Theory
9:00-10:00
Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean
Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University
“Law and Literature: My Fall, My Adventure”
10:00-11:00
Murray Krieger, University Research Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of California , Irvine
“Theory, Post-Theory, and the Fate of the ‘Literary'”
11:15-12:15
Eric J. Sundquist, Dean
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Prof. of English and African American Studies
Northwestern University
“Promised Lands: A Different Drummer”
1:45-2:45
Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor of French
Johns Hopkins University
“Building History: Gothic Representation in Restoration France ”
2:45-3:45
Walter Benn Michaels, Professor of EnglishJohns Hopkins University
“The Shape of the Signifier”
4:15-5:15
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics
Law School , Philosophy Department, & Divinity School
University of Chicago
“ ‘Secret Sewers of Vice'; Disgust, Bodies and the Law”
SATURDAY APRIL 24, 1999
9:00-10:00
Catharine Gallagher, Professor of English Literature
University of California , Berkley
“Formalism and Time”
10:00-11:00
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Professor of History
Department of History
Johns Hopkins University
“Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time”
11:15-12:15
Gerald Graff, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English & Education
University of Chicago
“Clueless in Academe: The Problem of Academic Intellectual Discourse”
1:30-2:30
Dominick LaCapra, Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies
Cornell University
“Trauma, Absence, and Loss”
2:30-3:30
Frances Ferguson, Professor of English and the Humanities
Johns Hopkins University
“Envy Rising: The Progress of An Emotion”
3:45-4:45
Houston A. Baker, Jr., Albert M. Greenfield Professor,
Department of English
Director, Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture
University of Pennsylvania
Constitutional Allegory and Affirmative Action Babies: Stephen Carter's Talk of Dissent”
4:45-5:45
Stanley Fish, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor of English
University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Fugitive in Flight: Why Television Drama was Once Good”
