Department of English

Professor Sarah Chihaya article: Elena Ferrante’s Form and Unform Congratulations to Professor Sarah Chihaya on her recent article published in the in "The New York Review of Books".
Department alum, Marc Conner *GS 96, has been named President of Skidmore College Congratulations to Marc Conner GS 96, on being named President of Skidmore College, effective July 2020
T.S. Eliot letters, among best-known sealed literary archives, open at Princeton after 60 years “The approaching release of T.S. Eliot’s letters to Emily Hale is already generating excitement on campus,” said Joshua Kotin, associate professor of English at Princeton. “Students who have been fascinated by ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (1915) and ‘The Waste Land’ (1922) are now asking questions about Eliot himself. But this interest is not limited to Eliot’s love life. Students are excited to learn more about Eliot’s religious conversion and attitudes toward women, and about his decisions at Faber & Faber and their impact on British culture.”
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Global Novel (ENG 444/ASA 444, Prof. Nadal): In Conversation with Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs Students from Professor Paul Nadal’s ENG 444/ASA 444 Global Novel seminar celebrated the end of semester with novelist Karan Mahajan.
Jennifer Soong poem featured in Tracy K. Smith podcast Poet and Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, Tracy K. Smith, selected Jennifer Soong’s poem “The Voyage Nowhere” for the November 13 episode of Smith’s podcast “The Slowdown.” Smith began the podcast during her time as Poet Laureate, featuring, reading, and discussing a poem of her choice every weekday.
Samuel Hynes, ‘highly respected scholar-critic’ of British literature and World War II veteran, dies at 95 Samuel Hynes, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus, died at home in Princeton on Oct. 10. He was 95.

Upcoming Events

Jan 29

Final Public Oral Exam: Matthew P. Ritger

40 McCosh Hall 2: 00 PM

Feb 04

Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop

McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)

4: 30 PM to 6: 30 PM

Feb 05

Crisis in the Red Zone: The Death of an African Doctor

East Pyne 010

4: 30 PM to 6: 30 PM

Feb 06

20th Century Workshop

Hinds Library (McCosh B14)

12: 00 PM to 1: 15 PM

Feb 07

Independent Writing Workshop (JP/Thesis)

Campus Club

9: 00 AM to 4: 00 PM