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2020-2021
2021 - 2022
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2019-2020
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. RSVP via email: mjh6@princeton.edu
This event is open to English Department graduate students and job seekers only.
Feminist Types: Reading the Victoria Press
Dissertation advisers: Meredith Martin, Deborah Nord, Meredith McGill (Department of English, Rutgers)
Nothing to Say: Silence in Modernist American Poetry
"Discussion: Getting Started on Your First Dissertation Chapter"
Lunch will be provided.
2018-2019
The Discomposed Mind
Dissertation advisers: Russell Leo, Eileen Reeves, D.Vance Smith
Dissertation is available for review in 22 McCosh Hall.
This event is restricted to English Department graduate students.
Presentation by Princeton Office of Career Services
Faithful Readings: Religion, Hermeneutics, and the Habits of Criticism, 1880-1950
Dissertation Advisers: Diana Fuss, Joshua Kotin, Sarah Rivett
A copy of the dissertation is available for review in 22 McCosh Hall.
Good Girls: Female Agency and Convention in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Dissertation Advisers: Anne Cheng, Claudia Johnson, Deborah Nord
Hosted by the English Department Graduate Action Committee (GAC)
"Orosius and Redefining 'pagan' "
Sponsored by the English Department Graduate Action Committee (GAC)
Kinds of Wrong: The Liberalization of Modern Poetry 1910-1960
Dissertation advisers: Jeff Dolven, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Joshua Kotin
Beyond Argument: Academics Writing in Public
Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790
Dissertation Advisers: Sophie Gee, William Gleason, Sarah Rivett
2017-2018
Title TBA
Dissertation Advisers: Leonard Barkan, Jeff Dolven, Nigel Smith
"On Zoë Wicomb"
Black Genocides and the Visibility Paradox in Post-Holocaust African American and African Literature
Dissertation Advisers: Wendy Belcher, William Gleason, Imani Perry
The Sensation of Language: Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley
Advisers: Claudia Johnson, Esther Schor, and Susan Wolfson
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, 1945-1965
Dissertation Advisers: Joshua Guild, Kinohi Nishikawa, Daphne Brooks (Yale)
The Foibles of Play: Three Case Studies on Play in the Interwar Years
Dissertation Advisers: Diana Fuss, Russell Leo, D.Vance Smith
"T.S. Eliot's Hermeneutic Conversion"
Political Disappointment: A Partial History of a Feeling
Dissertation Advisers: Diana Fuss, William Gleason, Daphne Brooks (Yale)
"On Barnes"
"no mean fruits": Indigenous Politics, English Settlement, and Anglo-Jesuit Letters in Early Colonial Maryland
Title TBD
"The Rest is Silence: On Louis Zukofsky"
"On Frost"
"T.S. Eliot's Estimations"
What does the "Enlightenment" hold for us today? Can certain radical and detoured "enlightenments" be useful in addressing the conjoined ecological and economic problems of our time?
"On Afro-Cuban Documentaries"
"T.S. Eliot's Chemistry"
"Pace and the Westering of Epiphany"
Remaking Nineteenth-Century Novels for the Twentieth Century
Dissertation Advisers: Rachel Bowlby, Claudia Johnson, Deborah Nord
From Time to Time: Narratives of Temporality in Early Modern England, 1610-1670
Dissertation Advisers: Leonard Barkan, Jeff Dolven, Russ Leo, Nigel Smith
Dissertation is available for review in 22 McCosh Hall.
The Bodies of Others: Slavery and Anatomy in the Early Republic
"Pace and the Westering of Epiphany"
2016-2017
Title TBA
Advisers: Eduardo Cadava, Diana Fuss, William Gleason
Lunch will be provided.
A Conversation with Princeton University's Office of Career Services
Lunch will be provided.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of History, Princeton University Graduate School, Program in American Studies
Reception at Prospect House to follow event.
Space for this event is limited. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/qleXbHrrwnQvAS3p1
"Scholarly Publishing Workshop: What, Where, When, and How"
Co- sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, English Department Graduate Action Committee, Program in American Studies
Lunch will be provided.
Maxims and the Mind: Sententiousness from Seventeenth-Century Science to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Between Siblings: Form and Family in the Modern Novel
2015-2016
Things That Linger: Secrets, Containers & Hoards in the Victorian Novel
Writing Graduate Seminar Papers: A Forum
2014-2015
"Framing Fanaticism: Religion, Violence, and the Reformation Literature of Self-Annihilation"
"Tear Him for His Bad Verses: Poetic Value and Literary History in Early Modern England"
"Sociable Uncertainities: Literature and the Ethics of Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
"Leave-Takings: Anti-Self-Consciousness and the Escapist Ends of the Victorian Marriage Plot"
"Talking Points: American Dialogue in the Twentieth Century"
Sponsored by the English Department Graduate Action Committee
Lunch will be provided
Sponsored by the English Department Graduate Action Committee
Lunch will be provided
"The Pathos of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein (with a coda on J.M. Coetzee)"
"Novel Errantry: An Annotated Edition of Horatio, of Holstein (1800)"
A copy of the dissertation is available for review in 22 McCosh Hall.
"Love's Perception: Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics of Attachment"
"Potential Theologies: Scholasticism and Middle English Literature"
Intersections Series Meet & Greet
2013-2014
"The Poetry of Loneliness from Romance to Romanticism"
Advisers: Sophie Gee, Esther Schor, Susan Stewart
"English Numeracy and the Writing of New Worlds, 1543-1622"
"The Pornographer at the Crossroads: Sex, Realism and Experiment in the Contemporary English Novel"
Hosted by the Department of English Graduate Action Committee.
For English Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Lunch will be provided.
"Conference Papers"
"Writing Seminar Papers"
For English Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Lunch will be provided.
For English Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Lunch will be provided.
For English Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Lunch will be provided.
2012-2013
"Thoughts on Dissertating"
"On Writing"
Graduate Workshop with Cathy Caruth