Events
Novel Subjects: Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Transformation of British Subjecthood
Dissertation advisers: Claudia Johnson, Deborah Nord, Esther Schor
Dissertation is available for review in 22 McCosh Hall.
Objects of Correction: Literature and the Birth of Modern Punishment
Dissertation Advisers: Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sophie Gee, Nigel Smith
Dissertation is available for review in 22 McCosh Hall.
This event will give an opportunity to our graduate students and undergrads who want to be introduced to Irene Yoon (a current voice in alt-ac conversations; she was just at MLA speaking on two panels) and get more information about the LARB workshop, which happens in LA each summer and bri
Richard Preston is the bestselling author of ten books, including The Hot Zone, The Wild Trees, and his most recent, Crisis in the Red Zone. His books explore little-known worlds of nature, terror, and human character, and have been published in more than 35 la
Open to current undergraduate English majors.
Corals are everywhere in Melville’s work. His obsession with them started with Typee and Omoo, where corals were the phenomenon of a predominantly geological nature; then it intensified in Mardi and Moby-Dick, where they were promoted into a primary metaphysica
Join us for an evening of reading and discovery as the Bain-Swiggett Library of Contemporary Poetry gives away over 100 books. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.
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Co-sponsored with the Center for Human Values.
Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
Two Wordsworths: Mountain-Climbing, Letter-Writing
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
First-year students and sophomores interested in learning more about careers in the Humanities are encouraged to attend.
Kirsten Silva Gruesz studies the changing conditions of literary production and reception: who gets to say what’s good, or what’s worth remembering? What languages and linguistic registers have social power, and who gets access to them?
Intersections Working Group presents a Book Club Meeting of: Reading for Reform; The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era by Laura R. Fisher
An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
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Co-sponsored with the East Asian Studies Program and the Postcolonial Colloquium.
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium and the University Center for Human Values.
Faculty Seminar for Monica Huerta in the Hinds
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Prize entries are due by 11:59 PM on Monday, March 13, 2020 and should be submitted electronically in PDF format at the link following the appropriate prize below.
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Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the University Center for Human Values.
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Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
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Open to current English majors working on their JP or thesis.
Senior thesis deadline for the Class of 2020.
'The Netherlands: Culture and Global History, 1500-1700', 8-10 April, 2020. Conference details, including speakers and schedules, can be seen at https://netherlands.princeton.edu/ and there will be regular updates (with pape
Accounting for Tennyson
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Bain-Swiggett Lectureship in Poetry
Junior Paper deadline for the Class of 2021.
Reflections on Method in Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Program in African Studies.
Open to Department of English juniors, seniors and faculty.
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Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
Roundtable Discussion: What Is Documentary Poetry?
Co-sponsored with the Program in Asian American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, and the University Center for Human Values.
Poetry Reading: Documentary Poetics
Co-sponsored with the Program in Asian American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, and the University Center for Human Values.
Day 2 of comprehensive exams followed by a reception in the Thorp Library.
Department of English Class Day Celebration for graduating seniors, their family and friends. Reception to follow in the McCosh Courtyard.