Dr. Jonathan Gross and DePaul grad students Carmen Romero Lopez, Rebecca Hathaway, and Zach Cleir will be participating in the Midwest Modern Language Association’s 65th Annual Convention next week! Read below for full details on this event. We hope you’ll attend these interesting discussions!

Where:
Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave

Schedule:
Friday, November 15
Third floor, private dining room 1
9:30 – 10:45 AM

Love, Lust, and the Romantic Sublime: Blindness and Insight into Health and Well-Being in Frankenstein and Other Romantic Period Texts

Panel chair: Jonathan Gross

1. Exploring the Dichotomy of Desire: Lust and Love in Romantic Poetry, Studied Works by Keats, Blake, and Millais
   Carmen Romero Lopez
   
2. Romantic Vegetarianism and the Health of the Body Politic
   Rebecca Hathaway
   
3. Hail holy Light: Milton, Mary Shelley, & Burke’s Dark Sublime
   Zach Cleir

Saturday, November 16
Third floor, private dining room 3
9:30 – 10:45 AM

Insiders and Outsiders #1

Panel chair: Kevin Swafford (Bradley University)

1. The Piano as Symbol in Romantic-Era Writing
   Jonathan Gross
   
2. “I was there”: Pain and the Poetry of “I” of Dorothy Wordsworth
   Daeun Kim (Indiana University–Bloomington)
   
3. A Tale of Three Poets
   Jessica Williams (Murray State University)

To view the full program for this year’s convention, visit https://mmla.memberclicks.net/assets/2024Convention/Program%20Book%20Draft%20%231.1.pdf.