The Material Culture Pedagogy Working Group is hosting its first event of the semester on Friday, March 19 at 12pm. Join the group for “No, It’s Not on the Syllabus,” a workshop on… Read More
Beginning March 23rd, Professor Margaret Stetz is offering the virtual course “Why We’re Still Wilde About Oscar” through The Rosenbach. Read below for the class description: Anyone who saw the… Read More
On Thursday March 4, 2021 at 6pm, Professor Jennifer Van Horn will deliver a virtual lecture as a part of the Dickson Lecture Series at Penn State. “Painted Afterlives: Enslavement and Representation in the Antebellum… Read More
The Stanford Arcade Colloquium, “Thing Theory in Literary Studies,” is an online site dedicated to publishing a wide array of work about the study of things and materiality in literature.… Read More
The Center for Material Culture Studies is thrilled to offer several funding opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students this application cycle. Please see our grant summary page for more information. The… Read More
The application deadline for the 2021 Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DELPHI) is rapidly approaching! The Institute will run from May 28 – June 10, 2021, in an entirely virtual format. DELPHI Summer… Read More
On February 9th, Professor Jaipreet Virdi will participate in a Zoom Roundtable on Victorian Material Culture. Hosted by the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC), the roundtable marks the seventh event in… Read More
In 2020, CMCS celebrated its 20th anniversary! To mark the occasion, we invited 20 people who have been integral to the Center’s success and longevity to share an object that they… Read More
Looking for some winter break reading? Be sure to check out Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s recent publication “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands, ” which appears in a special issue of Nuncius: The Journal… Read More
This application cycle, CMCS awarded four grants from the Graduate Research Fund in Black and African American Material Culture Studies. See below for more information!
