Each panel will consist of three ten-minute presentations followed by a half-hour discussion amongst panelists, conference attendees, and a moderator. In addition to traditional academic papers, each panel will feature a creative literary submission.

The day will conclude with a keynote presentation by Russ Castronovo,the Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his dynamic and lucid scholarly work, Prof. Castronovo focuses primarily on the political significance of American literature and the relationship between literature and democracy. Prof. Castronovo's publications include Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in Global Era (2007), Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2001), Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (1995). In 2002 he co-edited Materializing Democracy: Towards a Revitalized Cultural Politics and edited the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to 19th-Century American Literature. He is currently at work on a study of the circulation of propaganda in the years surrounding the American Revolutionary War.

We are also currently working on arranging an after party. Expect dancing, live-music, and fun to last the whole night long.

Thanks to generous support from GSAS, GSA, Academic Affairs, Humanities & Sciences, Literary Studies, and the English Department, "The Art of Outrage” is free and open to all.

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