Department of English

Journalist and English Major, Maria Ressa '86, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, for their longstanding efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.
Scholars Delve Into “Humanities and Mobility” During 15th Annual Humanities Colloquium “Humanities and Mobility" - Wendy Laura Belcher, João Biehl, Zahid Chaudhary, and Judith Hamera spoke at the second online Colloquium.
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.

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Oct 27

Theory Colloquium and East Asian Studies Program

Virtual--requires registration. See registration link below. 4: 30 PM

Oct 28

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

virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

Nov 11

Careers in Academic Publishing: Princeton University Press

Zoom 12: 30 PM to 1: 30 PM

Nov 11

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

virtual 6: 00 PM

Nov 16

Intersections Working Group: Race, Difference and Social Justice Lecture Series presents Prof. Cajetan Iheka

virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

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