Friday, March 27th (1-2:30 PM)
Angell Hall 3222
We are excited to invite Professor Jeffrey Insko as this term's external speaker!
As a professor of English and a coordinator in the American Studies department at Oakland University, Professor Insko specializes in nineteenth-century US literatures and cultures as well as the Environmental and Energy Humanities. His first book, History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing, examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary history--some, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement. He is currently at work on two book projects: Untimely Infrastructure, which is an environmental history of the 2010 Enbridge Energy oil spill into the Kalamazoo River, and a monograph about extraction and anti-extraction in US literature from the nineteenth century to the present.
In addition to attending Professor Insko's talk, we encourage you to attend the workshop's group reading of his work on Wednesday, February 11th from 12-1:30, which you can RSVP to following the link on our website.
