The Department of English will present a two-day conference titled "Race, Sexuality, Culture and Politics in the Literatures of the United States" April 1 and 2 in 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
Scholars will present inquiries into emerging fields of study in the literatures and cultures of the United States.
The conference, free and open to the public, convenes Friday at 3 p.m. with a roundtable discussion on current challenges to the concept of American studies, "challenges that have involved the rise of hemispheric and transatlantic studies, the rise of interdisciplinary and multi-ethnic programs, and the shifting categories by which genres and authors become more or less popular," said Shirley Samuels, Cornell professor of English and co-organizer of the conference.
Friday's roundtable discussions will be chaired by Samuels and conference co-organizer Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell.
Starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, scholars will present papers that feature representative examinations of 19th- and 20th-century discourses, including scholarly and theoretical work on history, modernity and the territory of the United States itself.
An full schedule is at: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/am-conf-schedule.html.
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