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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D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference.
Lunch, Faculty Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall (FBH)March 15, 2013 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference
"Booker T. Washington Does the World's Work: Racial Uplift and Disability" -- Todd Carmody, ACLS/Mellon New Faculty Fellow, Department of English | UC Berkeley Respondent: Philip Tsang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English | University of PennsylvaniaMarch 15, 2013 - 10:45am to 12:00pm -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference
Coffee BreakMarch 15, 2013 - 10:30am to 10:45am -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference.
"Seeing Touching Feeling: The Haptic Art of Judith Scott" -- Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature | Columbia University Respondent: Clare Mullaney, Ph.D. student, Department of English | University of PennsylvaniaMarch 15, 2013 - 9:15am to 10:30am -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference.
Coffee & Continental BreakfastMarch 15, 2013 - 9:00am to 9:15am -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference.
Dinner BreakMarch 14, 2013 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference.
Welcoming Remarks Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English | University of PennsylvaniaMarch 14, 2013 - 4:00pm to 4:15pm -
D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M A two day conference.
Opening Roundtable Moderator: Heather Love, Associate Professor of English | University of PennsylvaniaMarch 14, 2013 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm -
Ruth Leys (Johns Hopkins University) "Violence, Affect, and the Post-Traumatic Subject"
February 27, 2013 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Amy Paeth "State Verse Scandals: Views from Yaddo, St Elizabeths, and the Library of Congress, 1945-1956."
February 18, 2013 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm