Department of English

New York Times names Magical Habits “striking debut" Monica Huerta is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. In Magical Habits, she draws on her experiences growing up in her family’s Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities to make sense of our lives.
Schor named chair of the Humanities Council Esther “Starry” Schor, the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies and professor of English, has been appointed chair of Princeton University’s Humanities Council.
Silma Berrada '22, named co-winner of the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for the Class of 2022. Senior concentrator, Silma Berrada, has been named co-winner of the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for the Class of 2022. This prize is awarded annually to an undergraduate in the senior class in recognition of their exceptional academic achievement during their junior year at Princeton.
Announcing the Intersections Lecture Series The Intersections Lecture Series this year represents a department wide collaboration to bring to campus scholars whose work on race, difference, and social justice has remapped disciplinary boundaries and redefined how we think about the relationship between critical theory and social activism.
Gene Andrew Jarrett, English Department alum, named Princeton's next Dean of the Faculty Gene Andrew Jarrett, the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and Professor of English at New York University, will become Princeton’s next dean of the faculty.
Department of English Names Ten 2021 Senior Concentrators to Honors This year’s 2021 cohort finds ten student concentrators as recipients of honors designation for their work within the Department of English. Each department determines honors on the basis of the grades received by the student in departmental studies (including department requirements and cognates, junior independent work, the senior thesis, and the senior departmental examination.

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Sep 30

Final Public Oral Exam--Ali Mctar

Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99533075611; Meeting ID: 995 3307 5611 11: 00 AM

Oct 05

Intersections Working Group: Race, Difference and Social Justice Lecture Series presents Prof. Evie Shockley

virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

Oct 13

Personal Limits: a conversation series by Magical Habits, Labyrinth Books, and Princeton Publc Library, convened by Prof. Monica Huerta

virtual 5: 30 PM

Oct 15

Final Public Oral Exam--Daniel M. Hazard

Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97464089859; Meeting ID: 974 6408 9859 11: 00 AM

Oct 28

Intersections Working Group: Race, Difference and Social Justice Lecture Series presents Prof. Kara Keeling

virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

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