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  • Gene Jarrett - Dunbar biography

    Gene Jarrett takes us back to the Gilded Age in his new biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar Gene Jarrett, Princeton’s dean of the faculty and the William S. Tod Professor of English, has taught students about Paul Laurence Dunbar for two decades and published book articles and chapters on the popular and accomplished writer. But it wasn’t until 2008 that Jarrett decided to tackle a biography of Dunbar, who rose to prominence in the Gilded Age and has been called the “poet laureate of his race.”

  • Lucy Dever - Humanities Council podcast

    Department graduate, Lucy Dever '22 participates in Humanities Council podcast In the first episode of this two-part series, host and producer Dexter Thomas, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and a postdoctoral research associate in the Humanities Council, speaks to Allie Mangel ’22 and Lucy Ellen Dever ’22 about their senior thesis research.

  • Class Day video

    Congratulations to our 2022 Graduates! Congratulations to the Class of 2022!

  • Anne Cheng - President's Award for Distinguished Teaching

    Professor Anne Cheng recognized for outstanding teaching Congratulations to Professor Anne Cheng on receiving the Presisdent's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies Tuesday, May 24.

  • Jacqueline Campbell

    Jacqueline Campbell wins Graduate School Teaching Award Congratulations to Jacqueline Campbell, a 5th Year PhD student in the Department of English, has won the Princeton Graduate School’s 2022 Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and has been further recognized as the best Assistant in Instruction in the Division of the Humanities.

  • Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)

    Arts in the Invisible City This team-taught course was led by D. Vance Smith, professor of English, and Nyssa Chow, an oral historian and lecturer in theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Humanities Council. It was supported by the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council. Cross-listed in English, humanistic studies, theater and urban studies, the course is also part of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).

Upcoming Events

Aug 15
Final Public Oral Exam--Isabel M. Lockhart
TBD 1: 00 PM
Sep 26
Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song
TBD 4: 30 PM to 6: 00 PM
Apr 29
It Was the Best Of Times: A conference for Deborah Nord
TBD 8: 00 AM
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