Keynote Speakers

Jane Bennett

Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She has worked extensively on the relation between politics, nature, and ethics. Professor Bennett's most recent publications include The Enchantment of Modern Life (Princeton, 2001) and a second edition of Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). She is the co-editor of The Politics of Moralizing with Michael Shapiro (Routledge, 2002) and of In the Nature of Things with William Chaloupka (Minnesota, 1993).

Michael Warner

Michael Warner teaches at Rutgers University, where he is Board of Governors Professor of English and the director of the Center for Cultural Analysis. His most recent books include Publics and Counterpublics (Zone Books, 2002) and The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin, 2003). He is also the author of The Letters of the Republic (1990) and The Trouble with Normal (1999). He has edited two literary anthologies: American Sermons (Library of America, 1999); and, with Myra Jehlen, The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (1997). He is also the editor of Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory(1993); and, with Gerald Graff, The Origins of Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology (1988).

Conference Date

February 9-10, 2007

Location

Northwestern University