[From nobody Fri Feb 24 08:03:56 2006
From: &quot;Jennifer Doyle&quot; &lt;jennifer.doyle@ucr.edu&gt;
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Subject: Elizabeth Binggeli campus visit tomorrow
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:17:17 -0800
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Dear FVC Faculty member,

Tomorrow one of the finalists for the African/African American 
Studies position in FVC (soon to be Media &amp; Cultural Studies) will be 
on campus.  Please come to Elizabeth Binggeli's talk, and encourage 
students and colleagues to do the same.  We need to show how much 
interest there is on campus in this field, and the committee would 
appreciate what feedback you may have to give.  A few of us will have 
lunch with Elizabeth at the Barn (roughly between 11:30 &amp; 1:00pm). 
Please feel free to join us, or to stop by to say hello.

Jennifer Doyle

Elizabeth Binggeli
Department of English
University of Southern California

Thursday, February 23, 2006
3:00pm - 4:30pm
The lecture/discussion will be held in
HMNSS 2212 (English Conference Room)

&quot;Seraph on the Suwanee&quot; and &quot;The Yearling&quot;
This talk argues that the confounding sexual and racial politics of 
Zora Neale Hurston's so-called &quot;white novel,&quot; Seraph on the Suwanee 
(1948), are elucidated by an understanding of the author's complex 
relationship to Hollywood studio production of the 1930s and 40s. An 
analysis of the reception of Hurston's work at Warner Brothers Studio 
reveals the novel's indebtedness to the entrenched literary and 
filmic trope of the tragic mulatta, and that trope's Janus face, what 
I call the &quot;comic cracker,&quot; popularized in the MGM adaptation of 
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling (1938). 
Bingelli's primary research and teaching fields are African-American 
literature and film studies.
She received her Ph.D. from University of Southern California. 
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&lt;div&gt;Tomorrow one of the finalists for the African/African American
Studies position in FVC (soon to be Media &amp;amp; Cultural Studies) will
be on campus.&amp;nbsp; Please come to Elizabeth Binggeli's talk, and
encourage students and colleagues to do the same.&amp;nbsp; We need to
show how much interest there is on campus in this field, and the
committee would appreciate what feedback you may have to give.&amp;nbsp; A
few of us will have lunch with Elizabeth at the Barn (roughly between
11:30 &amp;amp; 1:00pm).&amp;nbsp; Please feel free to join us, or to stop by
to say hello.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Jennifer Doyle&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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University of Southern California&lt;br&gt;
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Thursday, February 23, 2006&lt;br&gt;
3:00pm - 4:30pm&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;div align=3D&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=3D&quot;+1&quot;&gt;This talk argues that the
confounding sexual and racial politics of Zora Neale Hurston's
so-called &amp;quot;white novel,&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt; Seraph on the Suwanee&lt;/i&gt;
(1948), are elucidated by an understanding of the author's complex
relationship to Hollywood studio production of the 1930s and 40s. An
analysis of the reception of Hurston's work at Warner Brothers Studio
reveals the novel's indebtedness to the entrenched literary and filmic
trope of the tragic mulatta, and that trope's Janus face, what I call
the &amp;quot;comic cracker,&amp;quot; popularized in the MGM adaptation of
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's&lt;i&gt; The Yearling&lt;/i&gt; (1938).&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
Bingelli's primary research and teaching fields are African-American
literature and film studies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=3D&quot;+1&quot;&gt;She received her Ph.D. from University of
Southern California.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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