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Senior Thesis Deadline
Apr 12, 2022, 12:00 am

Deadline for the senior thesis for the Class of 2022. 

2021 - 2022
Undergraduate dates/deadlines
Final Public Oral Exam--Jessica Terekhov
Apr 13, 2022, 11:00 am

Title TBA

Dissertation Advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Jeff Nunokawa, Adam Potkay (College of William & Mary)

2021 - 2022
Final Public Orals
Common Works Essentials: Encountering Poetry in Songs of Innocence and Experience and Dickinson's Selected with Profs. Josh Kotin & Jeff Dolven
Apr 14, 2022, 12:30 pm

Encountering Poetry in Songs of Innocence and Experience and Dickinson's Selected with Profs. Josh Kotin & Jeff Dolven

Join English Department faculty in exploring the essential questions, concepts, and writing skills necessary to prepare for the 2022 comprehensive exam.

The "Encountering"…

2021 - 2022
Undergraduate dates/deadlines
Meetings for Majors
Celebrating Life and Work of Talal Asad
Apr 14, 2022, 1:00 pm

The Department of English is pleased to support a celebration of the life and work of Talal Asad. The event will take place on Thursday, April 14 from 1:00-5:00pm in the Garden Room in Prospect House with livestreaming available.

For on-line participation please register at:

2021 - 2022
Lectures
Common Works Essentials: Imitation Workshop with Prof. Jeff Dolven
Apr 18, 2022, 12:30 pm

Join English Department faculty in exploring the essential questions, concepts, and writing skills necessary to prepare for the 2022 comprehensive exam.

The "Encountering" events are faculty-led conversations that offer students practical methods for approaching difficult texts, genres, and concepts.

The "Workshops" provide a space…

2021 - 2022
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Meetings for Majors
Meetings
Lectures
The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change
Apr 18, 2022, 4:30 pm

It has long been predicted that climate change will lead to large-scale displacements of population and mass migration. Is it possible to look at the European 'migrant crisis’ of recent years through this prism? This, and many other related questions, prompted me to travel to migrant camps in Italy in 2017, to interview migrants whose…

Symposia/Conferences
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: “Back to the Future of the End”
Apr 19, 2022, 5:00 pm
 

The Humanities Council’s Spring 2022 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Alenka Zupančič (The Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts).  Her visit, under the general title of “Back to…

2021 - 2022
Lectures
RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 28th! 2022 Majors' Colloquium
Apr 20, 2022, 4:30 pm

RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, APRIL 28th. 

2021 - 2022
Undergraduate dates/deadlines
Colloquia
CANCELED -- Victorian Colloquium
Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm

War Scare: Nuclear Tennyson

2021 - 2022
Colloquia
2022 Majors' Colloquium: Reading for Pleasure: Reclaiming Joy through Literature
Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm

Please join us for the 2022 Majors' Colloquium, Reading for Pleasure: Reclaiming Joy through Literature. Four English faculty speakers have been invited by the Class of 2022 to address this topic and all undergraduate English Majors are invited to attend. 

 

Following the colloquium, English UG majors and faculty are invited to a…

2021 - 2022
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Faculty In Conversation at Labyrinth Books: “The Matter of Black Living”
Apr 28, 2022, 6:00 pm

Join Autumn Womack, in conversation with Imani Perry, to discuss her new book" The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" at Labyrinth Books.

The Matter of Black Living excavates the dynamic interplay between racial data and Black aesthetic production that shaped late nineteenth-century social,…

2021 - 2022
Lectures
Graduate Garden Party
May 4, 2022, 4:00 pm

This event is open to English Department graduate students, faculty, and staff.

2021 - 2022
Graduate dates/deadlines
2022 English Senior Comprehensive Common Exam: Part One
May 5, 2022, 9:00 am

Senior English Comprehensive Common Works Exam for Class of 2022, Part One of two parts. 

2021 - 2022
Undergraduate dates/deadlines
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2022 English Senior Comprehensive Common Exam: Part Two
May 5, 2022, 1:30 pm

2022 English Senior Comprehensive Common Works Exam: Part Two of two parts. 

2021 - 2022
Undergraduate dates/deadlines
Deadlines
Meetings for Majors
Renaissance Colloquium
May 9, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England

2021 - 2022
Colloquia
Final Public Oral Exam--Jessica Terekhov
May 17, 2022, 11:00 am

On Wit in Relation to Self-Division

Advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Adam Potkay (College of William & Mary), Jeff Nunokawa

2021 - 2022
Final Public Orals
Class Day 2022
May 23, 2022, 1:30 pm

The Department of English at Princeton University warmly invites the Class of 2022, their parents, family, and friends to attend the 2022 Class Day Celebration. 

Monday, May 23, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. EDT in McCosh Hall 50 with refreshments to follow in McCosh Courtyard. 

Guests of the Class of 2022 are asked to complete a

2021 - 2022
Undergraduate dates/deadlines
Meetings for Majors
Meetings
Final Public Oral Exam--Liora Selinger
Jul 29, 2022, 1:00 pm

Romanticism, Childhood, and the Poetics of Explanation

Dissertation advisers:  Claudia Johnson, Meredith Martin, Esther Schor, Susan Wolfson

Dissertation is available upon request from Pat Guglielmi ([email protected])

 

Final Public Orals
Final Public Oral Exam--Isabel M. Lockhart
Aug 15, 2022, 1:00 pm

Storytelling and the Subsurface: Indigenous Fiction, Extraction, and the Energetic Present

Dissertation Advisers:  Zahid Chaudhary, Rob Nixon, Sarah Rivett

Dissertation is available upon request from Pat Guglielmi ([email protected])

2022 - 2023
Final Public Orals
Faculty and Graduate Student Meet and Greet
Aug 30, 2022, 12:00 pm

Join us on August 30th at 12pm. Lunch will be served in the Thorp Library (McCosh 20) to enjoy while socializing under the tent in McCosh Courtyard.

Please RSVP here: 

2022 - 2023
Meetings