A reading-social gathering of humanities faculty
(A.K.A. for the squeamish: Humanities Division Research Workshop)
Welcome to our official website. Publish or Pasta is a biweekly meeting of faculty in the division that seek colleagues to read and comment on potential publications. We usually work for a while, then have some sort of informal dinner: if you bring the paper, you do not have to bring the pasta. Come for just the meeting; socializing is not compulsory, though it is fun.
Publish or Pasta with Heather Braun 11/30/2007
Heather Braun will present her research on Victorian writer, Mary E. Coleridge (1861-1907), the great-grand niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Dr. Braun will be circulating an excerpt of her scholarly work in advance of the presentation.
This Publish or Pasta event, hosted by Karmen Lenz, will be held on Friday, November 30th at 4:30 pm. For more information, contact Karmen Lenz (karmen.lenz@maconstate.edu).
Publish or Pasta with Gerald Lucas 10/5/2007
Gerald Lucas, Associate Editor of the Mailer Review, will present his paper, “Demons of Media in Mailer’s An American Dream.” Jerry will be presenting his paper later this month at the Norman Mailer Society Conference.
This Publish or Pasta event, hosted by Heather Braun, will be held on Friday, October 5th at 4:30 pm. For more information, contact Heather Braun (heather.braun@maconstate.edu).
Publish or Pasta with Derrilyn Morrison 9/24/2007
Derrilyn Morrison will be presenting her paper “Caribbean Impulse in Lilian Allen’s Psychic Unrest” on Monday, September 24 from 3-4PM in room 112 in the Language Lab. Please consider joining us—there will be snacks, sodas, lively discussion (“workshopping”) and such, as always. For more information, contact Karmen Lenz (karmen.lenz@maconstate.edu).
Caribbean Impulse in Lilian Allen”s Psychic Unrest
This paper presents a discussion of Lilian Allen’s dub poetry, focusing on language as performance. Emerging out of a cultural legacy of oppression and displacement, Allen’s dub poetry participates in the poetic project of transforming the Canadian literary landscape, re-shaping it, as a form of cultural resistance. The paper thus takes a look at Allen’s poetry as a Caribbean Canadian prototype, a body of poetry creating a multiple framework of immigrant experiences.
