Mod/Con
The Mod/Con Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
Mod/Con, Penn English's Modernist and Contemporary Literatures Reading Group, is a working group devoted to the discussion of cultural and literary problematics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our critical and historical interests range from the late nineteenth century through to the present day, across early and high moderism, postmodernism, and beyond. Each semester, we work to develop ways of thinking about these period markers—how they differ, what they share—through invited lectures and works-in-progress by graduate students and faculty in and outside of the Penn English community. In tandem with these works-in-progress, Mod/Con frequently hosts reading events of scholarly monographs as well as works of short fiction and poetry. We hope you can join us for an event!
For more information or to be placed on the Mods listserv, please contact Jonathan Dick <jondick@sas.upenn.edu>
Upcoming Events
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Jennifer Fleissner (UChicago): "Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem"
September 20, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm -
Roundtable on Trans-Pacific Modernisms, with Nan Zhang (Hong Kong U), Doug Mao (Hopkins), and Nan Da (Hopkins)
November 14, 2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Past Events
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Disability Studies: Joe Valente (SUNY Buffalo) "Aging Yeats: From Fascism to Disability"
November 9, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter/CUNY): "Liberal Empire's Queer Counterpublic"
October 20, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Discussion of Modernism and Twentieth-Century Studies
October 13, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
David Kurnick (Rutgers)
“The Demographic Passions of the Realist Novel”April 21, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Sara Sligar WIP
April 4, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
WIP with Jill Richards
March 24, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Laura Finch, WIP
December 2, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
Aarthi Vadde
October 29, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Film Screening: "Far from the Madding Crowd"
September 24, 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence
April 2, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm