Faculty Seminars Fall 2026

Faculty Seminars are a wonderful way to learn more about your colleagues' research, creative and scholarly project, or pedagogical innovation and to connect with colleagues in an informal, academic setting.


12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Open to faculty and staff
$4 cash buffet lunch (first come, first serve)

Interested in presenting? 
Contact Janice Staples.
What: Targeted to non-specialist colleagues and approximately 1/2 hour.
When: Tues. or Weds., noon to 1 PM. 

Wed., Sept. 9 Maggie Solberg & Meghan Roberts (English & History)
Reflecting on the Humanities and Connecting to Careers

Tues., Sept. 15 Eleanor Conover (Visual Arts)
"The Shape(s) of Painting"

Wed., Sept 23 Beth Hoppe & Linnea Minich (Research & Instruction Librarians)
"The Forest and the Trees: A Framework for Collaborative and Sustainable Research Learning"

Tues., Sept. 29 Jeffrey Selinger (Government and Legal Studies)
"tbd"

Tues., Oct. 7 Tess Chakkalakal (Africana Studies and English)
"Where to find American Literary Culture Today"

Wed., Oct. 28 Jeova Farias (Computer Science)
"Harnessing LLM Hallucination for Literary Analysis: A Study on Textual Moral Ambiguity"

Tues., Nov. 3 Jay Sosa (Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies)
"Shifting Goalposts, Shrinking Experts: Examining Poppers Controversies in the AIDS Epidemic"

Wed., Nov. 11 TBD
"tbd"

Tues., Nov. 17 TBD
"tbd"

Wed., Dec. 2 TBD
"tbd"