The CCA provides a venue for colleagues across the humanities to share their work in progress with engaged audiences. We host three to five sessions each academic year featuring short talks by two faculty members in different departments”
Schedule for 2026-27
October 28: Yesenia Barragán (History) and Ryan Kernan (English)
Talk titles and more coming soon.
Past Works in Progress Sessions
2025-2026
Oct 15, 2025
Stéphane Robolin (Associate Professor, English)
Marcy Schwartz (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Oct 29, 2025
Talley Murphy (Assistant Professor, English)
Andrew Parker (Professor, French and Comparative Literature)
Nov 12, 2025
Ricardo Montez (Associate Professor, Art History and English)
Zeynep Gürsel (Associate Professor, Anthropology)
Mar 04, 2026
Jae Won Chung (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures)
Dana Luciano (Professor, English)
Apr 01, 2026
Carter Mathes (Associate Professor, English)
Dominik Zechner (Associate Professor, German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures)
2024-25
Wed, March 12, 2025
Judith Surkis (Professor, History), "Blood/Oil: Patrimony, Natural Resources and Sovereignty Between France and Algeria, 1961-1971”
Colin Jager (Professor of English), "Hey, You! Intimate Turns in Sartre, Fanon, and Rankine"
Wed, April 2, 2025
Sarah Elliott Novacich (Associate Professor, English) "Medieval Sacred Vernacular"
Jeehyun Choi (Assistant Professor, English), "Deportee Farewell: In Search of the Korean Diaspora's Literary Past"
Wed, April 16, 2025
Evelyn Soto (Assistant Professor, English), "Conspiring the Americas: Bolivar and Miranda in Haiti."
Michelle Stephens (Professor, English and Latino and Caribbean Studies), "Insular Encounters: Caribbean Writers and Visual Artists on the Question of the Real"