Dear all,
A reminder that the first event in this year's Film & Visual Culture Speaker Series will be taking place this coming
Monday (27/10), at 12:30 in Seminar Room 224 in the Sir Duncan Rice Library (please note the change in location since the first announcement):
Dr. Sarah Senk (Hartford University), "The 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Era of Virtual Witness"
Sarah Senk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English where she specializes in postcolonial literatures in English. She earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University, an M. St. in English (1900-present day) from the University of Oxford,
and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary Anglophone writing and trauma studies, examining the ways in which literary production in former British colonies has responded to a
legacy of colonial violence. In addition to postcolonial surveys and advanced classes in contemporary world literature, her teaching interests include transnational poetry and poetics, globalization and diaspora studies, and literature in the digital era.
She also teaches interdisciplinary courses that trace the development of contemporary psychological understandings of memory and commemoration from the Romantic era to the present day. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript entitled Melancholy Returns:
Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Trauma.
Best,
Paul Flaig
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