Events Archive
2020-2021
The Department of English and the Council of the Humanities invite you to a rehearsed reading of Colm Tóibín’s Pale Sister by Lisa Dwan. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness this amazing performance.
Join us on Friday, November 20th at 4:30 PM as Organizing Stories presents a Student-Faculty Activist Workshop with S.O.N.G.
Please join us for our English Department At-Home.
Welcome Sophomores and First-Year Students!
Join the Shakespeare and Company Project (https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu) for a conversation about the Lost Generation and the books they loved.
Join us for a career focused workshop with the Princeton University Press staff who will provide insight about the daily job duties and individual career paths leading up to their current position with the Press. Q&A to follow.
Arts Conversation Online
Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award, won the 2017 Young Lions Fictio
Justin Torres will discuss his book We the Animals.
Moderated by: Professor Christina León
Contact: mandrie@princeton.edu for Event Link
Intersections Working Group presents a discussion of Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU, 2020) with author Lindsay V. Reckson, Associate Professor of English at Haverford College.
To have the chance to discuss We the Animals in an informal and friendly setting, we're holding a book club meeting
Intersections Working Group presents a discussion of Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard, 2020) with author Joshua Bennett, Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
AMS Workshop with Andrew Way Leong, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Workshop will feature sections of his monograph in progress “A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature”
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: Blood, Bones and Butter and “My Restaurant Was My life for 20 Years. Does the World Need it Anymore?”;
Jenny Zhang on Sizzler from American Like Me;
Min Jin Lee, “What I Want the Woman Behind the Counter to Know”