Sleep Fictions
November 7, 2019
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location
Stevenson Hall, Lower Level
Address
701 S Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60612
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Download iCal FileHannah Huber, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities 2019-2020 Seminar:
"Sleep Fictions"
Hannah's book project argues that realist writers from Charles Chesnutt to Charlotte Perkins Gilman mobilized sleep to convey the race, class and gender disparities that belied the promising twenty-four-hour productivity of the Progressive Era. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary and critical sleep studies, Hannah contextualizes the lived experience of insomniacs, somnambulists, and oversleepers—characters whose errant behaviors dramatize the biopolitical dimensions of rest and its regulation. Ultimately, this project investigates the circumscription of sleep and social agency, highlighting how U.S. cultural demands for efficiency impede and restrict sleep on the displaced and marginalized.
Please contact huminst@uic.edu for pre-circulated paper.
Lunch will be provided.
Contact: Linda Vavra
Email: lvavra@uic.edu
Website: http://huminst.uic.edu/
Phone: 312-996-6354
Date posted
Jul 19, 2019
Date updated
Oct 15, 2019