Scott Challener

Past Talks

Fall 2023                

• “The Decolonial Poetics of Betrayal: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands / La Frontera,” Smith College, undergraduate seminar on “Multiethnic American Literature”

• “The Hampton Renaissance: A Digital Publishing Project,” Center for Teaching Excellence, Hampton University

Sep 2023          

• “The Cultural Logic of Minor Refusal,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

Aug 2023         

• “Wallace Stevens and the Fate of Modernist Studies,” Roundtable on Pedagogy and Race in the Modernist Studies Classroom, organized by MSA as part of Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies

Apr 2023          

• “Late (Print) Capitalism and the Remediating Poetics of Contemporary Puerto Rican and Latinx Poetry,” Data Poetics Virtual Symposium, “Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures”

Fall 2022                

• “The Decolonial Poetics of Betrayal: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands / La Frontera,” Smith College, undergraduate seminar on “Multiethnic American Literature”

Apr 2022          

• “The Cultural Logic of Minor Refusal,” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, IL

Oct 2021          

• “The Medium and the Mess: Latinx Poetics and Reciprocity,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

Apr 2021          

• “‘Inequality Before Translation’: The Poetics of Decolonial Address,” American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL

Jan 2021           

• “‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ at 100.” Modern Language Association

May 2020         

• “Translating Sapphics: The Neruda-Bishop-Moore Nexus and the Transnational Relay of Genre.” American Literature Association

Mar 2020         

• “Poetry as ‘Reject Note’: The Black Radical Magazine and the Poetics of Global Decolonization.” American Comparative Literature Association

Oct 2019          

• “Coterie Publics and the New York School.” Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, Canada

Jun 2018          

• “Parody and Homage: The Latin American Anthology Becomes Conscious of Itself.” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Mar 2018         

• “After the Last Negro Anthology: Langston Hughes in an Era of Global Decolonization,” Post45 Graduate Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Apr 2017          

• “Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in Jack Spicer,” Graduate English Symposium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Jan 2017           

• “Reckoning with Remembrance: The Contemporary Ballad and the Black Tradition,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA