Jan. 29th: Organizational Meeting
Feb. 13th: On Craft. Christopher Lasch, Plain Style; Section V of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style; Wallace Stegner, “The Law of Nature and the Dream of Man: Ruminations on the Art of Fiction,” in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West.
March 5th: Writing Erasure and Loss. Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin.
March 26th: Voices from the Academy. Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre; “The Refashioning of Martin Guerre,” and “On the Lame,” both in the American Historical Review 93, 3 (1988).
April 16th: Return of the Writer and the Academy Strikes Back. Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace; and the Roundtable Discussion on Alias Grace in the American Historical Review, 103, 5 (1998).
May 7th: Academics Anonymous. Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route.
Historians are Writers! 