SSWR meets on the third Thursday of the month at the CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue and 34 Street, beginning at 6:00 p.m. with wine and cheese. The presentation begins at 6:15. After the meeting we gather with the speaker for dinner at a nearby restaurant; everyone is invited to join us.
Our meetings are structured to encourage lively discussion. To that end, speakers are asked to provide readings in advance of the meeting, if they wish, and to be informal in their presentation. Often they speak on work in progress. Announcements and readings are sent to members by email, but all are welcome at our presentations.
Dues, at $25.00 a year ($5 for students), help defray travel expenses for out-of-town speakers and finance our wine and cheese. Please send your dues check and membership form to SSWR, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Make your check out to Susan O’Malley. (Put SSWR on the memo line.)
SSWR 2018-19 Schedule
September 20, 2018
6:00-7:30PM, Room 9204
“Gender, Race, and Orality in Aphra Behn’s Othello”
Miles P. Grier, English, Queens College, CUNY
October 18, 2018
6:00-7:30PM, Room 9204
“Accused/Accusing: Rape, the Female Appellor, and Measure for Measure”
Penelope Geng, English, Macalaster College
November 15, 2018
6:00-7:30PM, Room 9204
“Women in Combat? The Ambivalent Discourse of Female Militancy in Renaissance Italy”
Gerry Milligan, Italian, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Febuary 21, 2019
“Ars dictaminis and Ars technica: Catherine of Siena’s Letter Network”
Lisa Tagliaferri, Comparative Literature, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
March 21, 2019
“Female Scholars, Guardian Angels, and the Early Modern album amicorum”
Carol Pal, History, Bennington College
April 18, 2019
“Race, Slavery and the Complications of Patriarchy in the 17th Century British Atlantic”
Susan Amussen, History, University of California, Merced
