Meetings
Upcoming Events
Past Events
2022 - 2023
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.
2021 - 2022
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 vaccination attestation located here prior to the event.
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 for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
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 for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
Have you considered how concentrating in English might contribute to your future? Are you wondering what concentrating in English might be like? Want to meet current concentrators and faculty and find out?
Join us Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. EST, in McCosh Hall B14,The English Department's Hinds Library.
Please register here: https://bit.ly/2022SophOpenHouse
We look forward to meeting with you!
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 for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
February 17 and 18, 2022 - 5:00 to 6:30pm
Roberts Dance Studio W201, Lewis Arts Complex
Featuring Yin Mei and Dahlia Li
2020-2021
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. de Jong and a reading and discussion of central passages from Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology.
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
Sponsored by: Intersections Working Group, The Department of English, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Center for Human Values.
A discussion of The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics with Ren Ellis Neyra, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English Department, Wesleyan University and The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form with Julie Beth Napolin, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Digital Humanities, The New School.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/LYXGsuR5nPT1DonF8
Please join us for a screening of MINARI, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and a Golden Globe. A delicately wrought drama about what roots us, MINARI follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. Tracing the material and emotional challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks for this young family, MINARI shows the resilience of family and what it means to forge a home when you are seen as strangers from a different land.
Please join us on April 2, 2021 at 12:00 pm to meet and speak with English Department alums, Claire Greene '13 to discuss her time in the Department and how her degree in English contributed to her pursuit of a career in medicine and Bhaamati Borkheteria '20 about how she translated a degree in English to a career as a software engineer with Amazon.
Bring your lunch & your questions!
Registration Link: http://bit.ly/3sF3utw
Join us April 1st for a discussion of the film RAN. (dir. Akira Kurosawa) hosted by Lisa Kraege and Moeko Fujii.
Class of 2022 Concentrators are strongly encouraged to participate. Concentrators can view the film prior by accessing in the Canvas Common Works Group via this link prior to the discussion. We meet via Zoom. This opportunity is provided as a community conversation in preparation for the 2022 Common Works exam.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/rmwxdChDJLErvCuTA
Join us to meet current concentrators and the Department of English's Professors Jeff Dolven (DUS) and Rebecca Rainof (Outreach Coordinator), to learn more about concentrating in English, Department courses, and what the Department of English can offer you!
Register here: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QE6tGSuAT-2rpt8BH8Z9DQ
Join us March 18th for a discussion of William Shakespeare's KING LEAR hosted by Lisa Kraege and Moeko Fujii.
Class of 2022 Concentrators are strongly encouraged to participate. We meet via Zoom. This opportunity is provided as a community conversation in preparation for the 2022 Common Works exam.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/bEojC6yu32GfiX3WA
A discussion of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics
Event Registration Here: https://forms.gle/nviHRxt5jGCdsJGk6
A discussion of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
If you are interested in attending the workshop and being reimbursed for a copy of the book, please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/JF3B5xy35jYuhxSj7
Do you want to bring a smile to someone's face this Valentine's Day? Then join us for this group workshop where you will create an original piece of art or writing, then email it to someone in need as a Valentine's Day card. No experience with art or writing necessary. All you need to participate is a piece of paper, a pen and an open heart.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/BthuNbohRSkYsHJTA
Join us Wednesday, January 20th at 3:00 p.m. for a discussion of Jane Austen's EMMA hosted by Jeewon Yoo and Yan Che.
Class of 2022 Concentrators are strongly encouraged to participate. We meet via Zoom. This opportunity is provided as a community conversation in preparation for the 2022 Common Works exam.
Register here: https://forms.gle/PTWu9tngiiQnyZSDA
Please join us for our English Department At-Home.
Welcome Sophomores and First-Year Students!
Students will be able to talk with majors and chat socially about Department Courses, the major, and meet with Professors Jeff Dolven (DUS) and Rebecca Rainof (Outreach Coordinator) to learn more about what the Department of English can offer you!
2019-2020
Intersections Working Group presents a Book Club Meeting of: Reading for Reform; The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era by Laura R. Fisher
An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
This event is open to English Department graduate students only.
This event is open to English Department graduate students only.
Open to English Department job seekers only.
This event will give an opportunity to our graduate students and undergrads who want to be introduced to Irene Yoon (a current voice in alt-ac conversations; she was just at MLA speaking on two panels) and get more information about the LARB workshop, which happens in LA each summer and brings together folks across the changing landscapes of publishing from agents to publishers to editors to offer all kinds of professional development opportunities to attendees. The timing of the event is particularly fortuitous, since applications are due in March.