Events Archive
2021 - 2022
A conversation with author Dan-El Padilla Peralta ("Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League")
Beginning with Melville's remarks left in his Encantadas concerning the Galapagos tortoises this lecture examines the scientific and historical archives to which he had recourse, from Cuvier and
A conversation with "Slate" staff writer Lili Loofbourow
Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.
Careers in Academic Publishing: Princeton University Press
Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom. Registration Required.
A lunchtime conversation with Profs. Anne Cheng and Kinohi Nishikawa about Morrison's novels, for beginners and seasoned readers alike (and anyone who just might be taking the Common Exam in the spring).
A lunchtime conversation with Profs. Russ Leo and Jeff Dolven about Milton's epic, for beginners and seasoned readers alike (and anyone who just might be taking the Common Exam in the spring).
Professor Chow will discuss her recent book, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present (Columbia University Press, 2021), with follow up discussion with the author.
A conversation with co-authors of "The Ferrante Letters" Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre
Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.
Fallen Father: John Milton, Antinomianism, and the Case Against Adam
Dissertation advisers: Jeff Dolven, Russ Leo, and Nigel Smith
2020-2021
Securing the Crisis: Race and the Poetics of Risk
Dissertation Advisers: Simon Gikandi, Kinohi Nishikawa, Imani Perry, Herman Beavers (University of Pennsylvania)
Protean Figures: Personified Abstractions from Milton's Allegory to Wordsworth's Psychology of the Poet
Dissertation Advisers: Sophie Gee, Esther Schor, Susan Stewart, Susan Wolfson
The Second Science: Feminist Natural Inquiry in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Dissertation Advisers: Claudia Johnson, Deborah Nord, Rachel Bowlby (University College, London)
Doorstep Moments: Close Encounters with Minor Characters in the Victorian Novel
Advisers: Meredith Martin, Jeff Nunokawa, Gayle Salamon
Probability: A Literary History, 1479- 1700
Advisers: Jeff Dolven, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Russ Leo, Nigel Smith
On the Metareferential Mode and 19th Century British Literature
Advisers: Claudia Johnson, Meredith Martin, Deborah Nord
The Reformation of Indifference: Adiaphora, Toleration, and English Literature in the Seventeenth Century
Advisers: Bradin Cormack, Russ Leo, Nigel Smith
Save the Date! Join Us for Class Day on May 14th 2021 at 4:00pm EST. More Information to Follow.
The IHUM reading group “Derrida and Post-Phenomenology” invites you to a conversation with dr. Johan de Jong from Leiden University on April 27, 12pm. Led and facilitated by the graduate students members of the IHUM reading group, this event will involve a brief lecture by Dr.
A Book Talk and Discussion of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (NYU 2020) with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. April 22, 2021 at 4:30pm via zoom.
Register here: https://forms.gle/WJ3pgqi9reurijgu5