Chères et chers collègues,

Le groupe de recherche A19 (VALE, Sorbonne Université, et ECHELLES, Université Paris Cité) aura le grand plaisir d’accueillir Prof. Dana Luciano (Rutgers University), Prof. Kyla Tompkins (University at Buffalo), et Prof. Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison) le lundi 16 juin à Université Paris Cité. Veuillez trouver le programme de l’évènement ci-dessous :

Program

Université Paris Cité, Olympe de Gouges Building, Room 830

10:00-12:00: The Matter of Nineteenth-Century Studies: A Conversation between Dana Luciano and Kyla Tompkins.

Dana and Kyla would like to share the introduction to How the Earth Feels and the introduction and chapter 1 of Deviant Matter in advance of the seminar (the document password will be emailed to A19 participants – please use the contact button on the homepage if you don’t receive it).

14:00-15:00: Animal Humanism: Species, Race, and Humanity in the Long Nineteenth Century: Brigitte Fielder (Wisconsin-Madison)

Brigitte would like to share the following material, which we would remind participants not to circulate further:

• Introduction to Animal Humanisms
• Chapter 5 from Animal Humanisms

A Zoom link will be available here before the event.

Speakers

Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Professor and Chair of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Buffalo, and a Professor at Pomona College. Her scholarly work variously investigates aesthetic production, biopolitics and the history of ideas via an interdisciplinary methodology grounded in close reading practices. Her first book, Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century, won the Lora Romero prize for Best First Book in American Studies and Best Book from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Her second monograph, Deviant Matter, was released with New York University Press in 2024.

Dana Luciano is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2018. Previously, she taught at Georgetown University, where she co-directed the Mellon Sawyer seminar, “Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change” (2016-2018) and served as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program (2009-2012). Her most recent monograph, How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth Century U.S. was published by Duke University Press in January 2024.

Brigitte Fielder is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke UP, 2020) and co-author (with Jonathan Senchyne) of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (U of Wisconsin P, 2019).  She is currently finishing a second book manuscript, on Mildred Taylor’s children’s novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (under contract with Oxford University Press) and completing another book on racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century, which shows how childhood becomes a key site for both humanization and racialization. Her newest project deals with pre-20^th-century iterations of Afrofuturism – Black employments of “old” tech for hopeful future visioning. Fielder is co-editor (with Sarah Chinn) of J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists ,the current President of the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), and a co-founder of Taught by Literature, a Black digital humanities project working to make early Black women intellectual’s work and teaching materials available for students of all ages.