{"id":68,"date":"2016-04-25T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:44:59","slug":"sarah-townsend-presents-at-multiple-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/sarah-townsend-presents-at-multiple-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Townsend Presents at Multiple Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Sarah L. Townsend presented a paper, &#8220;The Drama of <em>Bildung<\/em>: A Postcolonial Genre Study,&#8221; at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association conference at Harvard University. The paper was part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acla.org\/seminar\/global-genres-literary-form-and-circulation-moderncontemporary-period\" target=\"_blank\">a three-day seminar<\/a> on &#8220;Global Genres: Literary Form and Circulation in the Modern and Contemporary Period&#8221; that\u00a0 focused on examining literary genres as social contracts, exploring the question: &#8220;What makes us associate a literary form or genre with a particular nation or culture, and can some genres and forms be considered better &#8216;travelers&#8217; than others?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Townsend also presented a paper, &#8220;Revolutionary Time: Joyce,<em>Ulysses<\/em>, and Irish Political Theater,&#8221; at the 2016 American Conference for Irish Studies held at the University of Notre Dame. The panel, which she co-organized, presented reassessments of the critical study <em>Irish Times<\/em> by David Lloyd, who also served as a respondent. Townsend also co-convened a publishing workshop for graduate students, and chaired a panel featuring UNM M.A. students Elizabeth Benedict, Kelsey Byrne, and Sunny Diaz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Sarah L. Townsend presented a paper, &#8220;The Drama of Bildung: A Postcolonial Genre Study,&#8221; at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association conference at Harvard University. The paper was part of a three-day seminar on &#8220;Global Genres: Literary Form and Circulation in the Modern and Contemporary Period&#8221; that\u00a0 focused on examining literary genres as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}