Center for the Study of the Novel

October 10, 2007
Lee Konstantinou (Stanford)
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

October 31, 2007
Nir Evron (Stanford)
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

November 28, 2007
Miruna Stanica (Stanford)
Selections from 18th-century it-narratives

Winter

January 16, 2008
Luba Golburt (Berkeley)
The Captain's Daughter, Alexander Pushkin

Early February 2008
Matt Garrett (Stanford)
The History of Constantius and Pulchera, Anonymous

March 2008
Felicia Martinez (Stanford)
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

Spring

April 10, 2008, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
James Phelan (Ohio State)
Contemporary Narrative Theory as Focalized Through the Editor of Narrative
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

April 22, 2008, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
John Plotz (Brandeis)
—on William Morris' News from Nowhere and The Sundering Flood
Respondent: Kenny Ligda
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

May 15, 2008, 6:15 pm
Karen Leibowitz (Berkeley)
—on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Respondent TBD
Room 429, Margaret Jacks Hall

May 29, 2008, 6:15 pm
Kara Wittman (Stanford)
—on Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
Respondent TBD
Room 429, Margaret Jacks Hall

Dear Faculty and Graduate Students:

The Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford, directed this year by Alex Woloch, is sponsoring a Working Group on the Novel and soliciting members. This group provides an opportunity for students and faculty in different departments whose work is oriented toward the history and theory of the novel to form a sustained working group that highlights this dimension of their work.

One of the goals for the group is to address the re-scaling of novel studies, toward both less canonical European and American texts and novels outside of American and European contexts.

We plan on meeting roughly three times per quarter. Workshop meetings will include discussion of a specific novel, or section of a novel, that is the background for a work-in-progress, followed by a discussion of the work-in-progress.

All who are interested in participating in the group, whether they plan to present a project or not, are invited to the first planning meeting, which will be held at 6:00 pm in the Terrace Room, 4th Floor, Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460) on Monday, 1 October. Dinner and drinks will be provided.

Please RSVP to any of the grad student coordinators below, indicating if you'd like to present (and which quarter), or whether you'd like to simply participate. If you can?t make it on Monday but are still interested, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Kenneth Ligda kenligda@stanford.edu

Miruna Stanica mstanica@stanford.edu

James Wood jrobertwood@gmail.com