Department of English

Abraham I. Acosta,  For more than twenty years now, the concepts of coloniality of power and settler colonialism have been pivotal in the formation and development of decolonial critiques of power.  Understood as names for a cultural-political modality for establishing and sustaining geopolitical subordination, the concept has become conventionalized and routinely deployed in order to …

Macarena Gomez-Barris, “Archival Disappearances and Southern Submerged Perspectives of Resurgence” In this talk, I address how to think about the colonial archive in relation to disappearance and Indigenous resurgence in the Américas, specifically focused on the legacy of Darwin and in relation to the category “los desaparecidos” that is often used to describe modern state …

Christa J. Olson “Nuestras Reliquías Históricas” and the Rhetorical Work of Ancestors at Machu Picchu” Between 1911 and 1915, Yale University Professor Hiram Bingham III and his Yale Peruvian Expedition illegally carried thousands of objects out of Peru, adding them to the collections of the Yale Peabody Museum. Analyses of the Yale Peruvian Expedition’s work …

Speakers: Deepthi Siriwardena “Towards a Sri Lankan Feminism: Reading Sunethra Rajakarunanayke’s Metta” Dan Shurley “Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forebears: How Pennsylvania Erased The Lenape From Local History” Ivette Rodriguez “Anzaldua Pedagogies: Decolonizing Academia from the Inside” Martina Laura Speranza “Problematizing the gender gap: feminist, queer and postcolonial approaches to inequalities in the rural Global South” Alexander Slotkin …

In April 1980 renowned African writer Chinua Achebe and African American literary giant James Baldwin met for the first time at the African Literature Association conference devoted to the African Aesthetic. On the 40th anniversary of Achebe and Baldwin's historic encounter at the University of Florida, The Center for African Studies invites guests to a …

On May 20th-22nd, UF will be hosting its 18th annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Exploring the In-Betweens: Comics in Flux.” FORMAT This year’s all-digital format is in response to the accessibility and travel needs of our presenters and keynote speakers. We will also host three live keynote speeches over Zoom and seven panels …

Location: Hebert Library, in the English Department main office; will also be available on Zoom 1:00-1:45 Admin and Office Introduction and Welcome Department Administrative Leaders and core office staff will introduce themselves, clarify their roles, and help you put faces to names.  Incoming graduate students will also introduce themselves to the group. Participants: Sid Dobrin …