Department of English

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Sophomore Declaration Day - Friday, April 20
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Annual English Majors Colloquium English majors and faculty get together for the annual Majors Colloquium. Russ Leo, Bradin Cormack, Sarah Anderson, and Christina León offered their thoughts on this year's theme "Why Words Matter." Afterwards the department adjourned to the rotunda in Chancellor Green for more conversation, a catered meal, and a celebration of our graduating seniors.
Novelist Kamila Shamsie visits ENG 374: Cultures of Protest Novelist Kamila Shamsie visited Prof Zahid Chaudhary and Daniel Hazard’s collaboratively taught course, ENG374: Cultures of Protest. Shamsie’s recent novel, Home Fire, is an interpretation of Antigone set during the contemporary war on terror.
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Congratulations to all our seniors on completing their senior theses!
Graduate student, Miranda Marraccini, selected as 2018 Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Women's Studies Miranda Marraccini, a graduate student in the Department of English, was selected as a 2018 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies. Marraccini’s dissertation, “Feminist Types: Reading the Victoria Press,” uses digital humanities methods and archival scholarship to develop a new understanding of nineteenth-century feminist print culture.
English major, Jack Lohmann '19, selected for Princeton Environmental Institute award English major, Jack Lohmann's research project, “Nauru”, with supervision by Professor Robert Nixon, has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Scholars Program in the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Upcoming Events

Apr 27

Global Enlightenment Series: "Eighteenth- and Ninteenth-Century Secularities"

East Pyne 161

2: 00 PM to 5: 00 PM

May 02

20th C. Workshop Series

12: 00 PM

May 02

Renaissance Colloquium and the Department of Comparative Literature

Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

May 04

The Intellectual Lives of Hugo Grotius

East Pyne 105 (Friday) & Wallace 300 (Saturday-Sunday)

11: 30 AM to 12: 00 PM

May 08

Final Public Oral Exam--Sara Marcus

Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 3: 30 PM