We hope you will make plans to attend the 19th Willa Cather International Seminar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as we celebrate the 100th publication anniversary of The Professor's House!
Registration and other aspects of the seminar will be announced soon.
FEATURED SPEAKER: Jeffrey Insko
Jeffrey Insko is Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he teaches courses on nineteenth-century American literature and culture and the Environmental and Energy Humanities. He is the author of History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing (Oxford, 2018) and the editor of the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (2024). His recent work on energy, environment, and infrastructure has appeared in such venues as the Cambridge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, the Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Post45, and The Dial. He is currently completing a book about energy infrastructure, the Great Lakes, and industrial modernity titled The North 30: An Environmental History of America’s Most Dangerous Pipeline.
FEATURED SPEAKER: Noreen Masud
Noreen Masud is a lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Bristol and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. Her research covers all kinds of bases: flatness, spivs, puppets, leftovers, earworms, footnotes, rhymes, hymns, surprises, folk songs, colours, superstitions. While Masud works mostly on twentieth-century literature, she also make forays into Victorian and Romantic literature. Her upcoming book, Flat Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Literature, focuses on D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein. Portions of the manuscript have been published in Textual Practice and Twentieth-Century Literature.
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