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ENGLISH in 50 Years
Apr 25, 2023, 4:30 pm

ENGLISH in 50 Years is the Class of 2023's English Major's Colloquium featuring faculty speakers and open to English and English-associated faculty, and the current English concentrators in the Class of 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Colloquium begins at 4:30 pm in East Pyne 010 with a reception dinner to follow at Prospect House. 

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speakers
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 pm

Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University and Author of Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance (Penn Press, 2014).

Location
TBD
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Americanist Colloquium
Apr 12, 2023, 4:30 pm

Barbara Browning is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Location
TBD
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Romanticism Colloquium
Mar 30, 2023, 4:30 pm

Lynn M. Festa, Rutgers University

Associate Professor of English and author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.

Location
Hinds Library (McCosh B14)
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Americanist Colloquium
Mar 29, 2023, 4:30 pm

Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Dean of the Humanities at Rutgers University. He received his BA from Williams College and His PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU.

Location
TBD
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Ecotheories Colloquium
Mar 27, 2023, 12:00 pm

“Feral Atlas: Toward a Collaborative Environmental Humanities”

Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:00pm-1:30pm in McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)

Register for pre-circulated materials at https://forms.gle/BnyZEi5mFWzm64EA7

Professor Anna Tsing will gather us for a lunchtime…

Location
Hinds Library, McCosh B14
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Gossip Etherealized: Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction and the Logic of the Record.
Mar 22, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
100 Jones Hall
Speakers
2022 - 2023
Theory Colloquium
Mar 6, 2023, 4:30 pm

Joan K. Copjec is an American philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanian

Location
East Pyne 111
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
Mar 2, 2023, 4:30 pm

Assistant Professor of English at Clark University. He specializes in the literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries. He teaches courses on race, disability, and emotions in early modern British literature.

Location
TBD
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Feb 15, 2023, 4:30 pm

Ecotheories Colloquium: 

Kimberly Bain, University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literatures. Kimberly Bain earned a Ph.D. in English and Interdisciplinary Humanistic Study from Princeton University. Bain's most pressing intellectual interests have consolidated around questions of the history, theory,…

Location
via zoom
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Twentieth Century Workshop
Dec 2, 2022, 12:30 pm

This is an announcement for the next meeting of the 20th Century Workshop.  

Speaker: Elias Kleinbock, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton UniversityRespondent: Jon Repetti, Department of English, Princeton University Zoom link:
Location
virtual
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Twentieth Century Workshop
Nov 18, 2022, 12:30 pm
Please join us this Friday, November 18 at 12:30 pm ET (on Zoom) to discuss his dissertation chapter “Some Singular Providence”: Stephen Crane’s Dispatches from a Falling World. The chapter is attached below. Speaker: Jon Repetti, Department of English, Princeton UniversityRespondent: Elias Kleinbock, Department of Comparative Literature,…
Location
via zoom
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
Nov 17, 2022, 4:30 pm

Associate Professor of English at John Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Author of The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

Location
Chancellor Green 103
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Nov 14, 2022, 4:30 pm

Ecotheories Colloquium: 

Ada Smailbegović, Brown University, Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. Her writing explores relations between poetics, non-human forms of materiality, and histories of description. She is a co-founder of The Organism for Poetic Research.

Registration free and open to PU faculty, staff, and…

Location
East Pyne 111
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Nov 3, 2022, 4:30 pm

Ecotheories Colloquium: 

“Ecology/Echography: Heidegger's Hut—Three Displacements” 

Cary Wolfe, Rice University, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English. He has written on a range of topics, from American poetry to bioethics. He is series editor for Minnesota Press's Posthumanities Series

Registration free and open…

Location
East Pyne 111
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Romanticism Colloquium
Nov 2, 2022, 4:30 pm

Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018).

Location
via zoom
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Victorian Colloquium
Oct 27, 2022, 4:30 pm

Professor Cornelia Pearsall is Professor of English at Smith College. She is also affiliated faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Yale University.

Sponsored by The Department of English and The Bain-Swiggett Fund

Location
Hinds Library (McCosh Hall B14)
Speaker
2022 - 2023
16th Annual Humanities Colloquium
Sep 8, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Humanities Council’s kick-off event features a wide-ranging conversation about central issues in our research, teaching, and intellectual life. This year’s speakers include distinguished Princeton scholars whose work represents different approaches and historical periods. They will participate in a panel discussion on the theme of “

Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
May 9, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/91800542902; Meeting ID: 918 0054 2902
Speaker
2021 - 2022
CANCELED -- Victorian Colloquium
Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm

War Scare: Nuclear Tennyson

Location
McCosh 40
Speaker
2021 - 2022