Join the Libraries for a panel on our current exhibit, "Writing the Modern World: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Science and Technology in the United States"!
Three literary scholars and an astrophysicist will read short papers on the themes of the exhibit and engage in a moderated conversation.
Zoom link
Panelists:
Dan Grin - Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy - Haverford College
Bio:
I am a theoretical astrophysicist specializing in cosmology. My research focuses on dark matter, dark energy, and how we can use observations of the cosmic microwave background and distribution of galaxies to learn more about what these mysterious substances actually are. I am also interested in how global deviations of the CMB from a perfect thermal spectrum (“spectral distortions”) can tell us about energy-injecting processes in the first ~380,000 years of cosmic time, and the atomic physics relevant to the properties of the CMB.
Mark Morrisson - Professor and Head of English - Penn State University
Bio:
Mark S. Morrisson is Professor and Head of English at Penn State University. He is author of The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920 (U of Wisconsin P, 2001); Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory (Oxford UP, 2007), and Modernism, Science, and Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016); and numerous articles and chapters; and he is co-editor, with Richard Shillitoe, of I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings by Ithell Colquhoun (Penn State UP, 2014), and, with Jack Selzer, co-editor of an edition of the Parisian little magazine Tambour. Morrisson is a past editor of the Penn State University Press series, Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences, and a past co-editor, with Sean Latham, of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Early in his career, he enjoyed a role in the founding of the Modernist Studies Association, and he returned at mid-career to its board as President.
kitt price - Senior Lecturer in English - Queen Mary University of London
Bio:
I arrived at Queen Mary in September 2012, having previously taught English and Creative Writing for 8 years at Anglia Ruskin University. Before that I was a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge, having completed my PhD in 2001 at King’s College Cambridge where I researched the literary uses of physics in the 1920s. I received an MA English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 1998 and a BA Combined Studies from the University of Manchester in 1996. Outside of Queen Mary my interests include cricket and East Asian healing arts. I am a trained trade union representative for the University and Colleges Union, with a focus on equalities. My preferred pronoun is they / their.
Lisa Steinman - Kenan Professor of English & Humanities - Reed College
Bio:
Lisa M. Steinman, who came to Reed in 1976 with an MFA and a PhD from Cornell University, has published nine books: six books of poetry (from Ithaca House, Arrowood Books, and the University of Tampa Press) and three books about poetry (from Yale University Press, St. Martin's, and Blackwell) as well as many individual poems and articles about poetry. She is also a founder and editor of Hubbub, a poetry journal. Her work has been recognized by various granting agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation, although it was her passion for teaching that drew her to Reed College. She has taught in three of Reed's four Humanities courses and teaches a variety of English courses (including introductory poetry classes and advanced courses, especially on modernist and contemporary American poetry). She has recently lectured on the place of poetry in U.S. culture, on African-American poetry, and on the poetry of Wallace Stevens at colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.
Visit "Writing the Modern World" Lutnick Library's Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, or view online!
This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Alan M. Klein '81 and Haverford Libraries.
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