The College of Liberal Arts continues its Battlefields and Homefronts: World War I and Modern Life Speaker Series on Friday, April 8, at 12:00 noon in room 4310 in the College of Liberal Arts building. Sarah Cole, Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, will present this year’s keynote address entitled “The Civilian: H.G. Wells and the Wartime Imagination.” Dr. Cole specializes in British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the modernist period. She is the author of two books, At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The next guest lecturer in this series is Vivien Newman who will present her talk, “‘We Also Served’: Women’s Service in the First World War,” on Wednesday, April 13, at 12:00 noon in the College of Liberal Arts building, room 3310. Dr. Newman is the author of Nursing Through Shot and Shell, the story of nurses at the front lines during World War I, and We Also Served, the story of women’s wartime service in Britain.
Nancy J. Siegel, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art & Design, Art History, and Art Education at Towson University, will present her talk, “‘Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man’ — the Power of Persuasion in World War I Posters,” on Wednesday, April 20, at 12:00 noon in the College of Liberal Arts building, room 3310. Dr. Siegel is the author of The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting, and is currently working on a delicious project titled, Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic.
Jacqueline Shin, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Towson University, will close the series with her talk, “Narrative and Witchcraft, Aesthetics and Politics: British Women Novelists in the Aftermath of World War I,” on Wednesday, May 4, at 12:00 noon in the College of Liberal Arts building, room 3310. Dr. Shin received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author of Lolly Willowes and the Arts of Dispossession, a study of the early fiction of Sylvia Townsend Warner.
For more information about the World War I Speaker Series, contact Nicole Dombrowski Risser in the Department of History at ndombrowski@towson.edu.
