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“God in Wayward Forms: Jamie Quatro’s Salvation-Seeking Adulteresses”

June 18th, 2013
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“Feel this Now: Jennifer Doyle's "Hold It Against Me"”

June 19th, 2013
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“Revenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind””

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“Silence was Pleased: From Poem to Film”

June 18th, 2013
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“A City for Children in the Work of E. L. Konigsburg”

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