§ Monday, February 25 – 7:00pm, Keating Auditorium, 3rd Floor (Rose Hill)

   HEATHER LOVE  (University of Pennsylvania)
   “Compulsory Happiness and Queer Existence”

[Co-sponsored by the Fordham PRIDE Alliance, the American Studies, Women’s Studies (Lincoln Center) and Literary Studies Programs, and the English Department]


§ Monday, March 3 – 6:00pm, Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center (Rose Hill)

   BRENT HAYES EDWARDS  (Rutgers University)
   "The Unheard Voice of Black Paris"

[Co-sponsored by the Departments of African and African American Studies and English, the Literary Studies and the American Studies Programs, the Faculty Seminar on Race and the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Office of the Dean of Faculty, and the Bronx African American History Project]


§ Thursday, March 27 – 6:30-8:00pm, O'Keefe Commons (Rose Hill)

   VIJAY PRASHAD  (Trinity College)
   "'You Remind Me Of Everything That Followed': Love and Claustrophobia in
   Immigrant Lives"

NOTE: On Thursday, March 27, at 3:00pm in Keating Hall 114, professor Prashad will also lead a discussion on "The Third World As Project, the Global South as Struggle."

[Co-sponsored by the FCRH Dean's Office, the Literary Studies and American Studies Programs, the Asian American Literature Series, and the English Department]


§ Wednesday, April 16 – 4:00pm, Tognino Hall, Duane Library (Rose Hill)

   MARGARET LITVIN  (Yale University)
   "'Shall We Be or Not Be?': Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Anxieties of Arab 
   Nationalism"

[Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Literary Studies Program]


§ Wednesday, April 23 – 4:15pm, Lowenstein 521 (Lincoln Center)

   SENIOR PROJECT PRESENTATION

   Ashley Miller (FCRH '08)
   "Fragmentation and the Interrupted Narrative: Primo Levi, Art Spiegelman, and 
   Distorted Memories of the Holocaust"


§ Friday, May 9 – 3:00pm, South Lounge (Lincoln Center)

   The Literary Studies May Colloquium: FEELING OUT OF BOUNDS
  
   Speakers:  Hugo Benavides (Fordham University)
                    Synnøve Bendixsen (Technischen Universität, Berlin)
                    Glenn Hendler (Fordham University)
                    Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
                    Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui (Rutgers University)

[Co-sponsored by the Literary Studies and Urban Studies Programs]