Meetings

Past Events

2022 - 2023

Mar 01
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Monica Huerta & Autumn Womack
Rockefeller Dining Hall (PDR - Private Dining Room) 6: 00 PM

ORGANIZING STORIES is excited to kick off this semester with Dinner & Dialogue.

We'll be joined by graduate student organizers who will share their stories and experiences of cultivating a self-sustaining praxis and artistic resistance while organizing around labor rights, gender based violence, BIPOC maternal health, and Black liberation!

Please join us on

Wednesday, March 1 at 6pm

Feb 13
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Saturnia Arts
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall B14 4: 30 PM

Bring a smile to someone's face this Valentine's Day.

Join us to craft handmade, personalized valentines for the special people in your life.

Creation supplies, hot cocoa and cookies will be provided!

Monday, February 13,2023 4:30 - 6:00 pm in the Hinds Library, McCosh Hall B14

Register https://bit.ly/Art2Heart23

Feb 02
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Natalie Tung '18
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall B14 12: 00 PM

UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO A CHANGE IN UNIVERSITY SPONSORSHIP THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE LOOK FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY IN SPRING 2024 FOR SUMMER 2024. 

2023 Department of English Concentrator's:

HomeWorks Trenton Summer 2023 Internship

Information Session 

Nov 07
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Prof. Autumn Womack and students from the Class of 2023 who attended the Summer Bread Loaf 2022.
Hinds Library, McCosh B14 12: 00 PM

English Concentrators in the Class of 2024 are invited to Join prior Bread Loaf attendees to learn more about this fully funded opportunity offered to English Concentrators during the summer of junior year.                                                                         

Open to Class of 2024 English Concentrators and prior Bread Loaf 2022 attendees.                                       

Lunch provided for those concentrators who have RSVP'd  by Thursday, November 2, 2022.

Oct 07
Fedor Karmanov, Department of English, Princeton University
via zoom 12: 30 PM
This is an announcement for the second meeting of the 20th Century Workshop.
Aug 30
Thorp Library (McCosh 20) 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.

2021 - 2022

May 23
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McCosh 50 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 vaccination attestation located here prior to the event. 

Apr 18
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Prof. Jeff Dolven
McCosh Hall B14: The Hinds Library 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 for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.

Mar 22
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Professor Tamsen Wolff
McCosh Hall B14: the Hinds Library 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 for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.

Mar 16
Happy English Concentrators!
McCosh Hall B14, The Hinds Library 5: 00 PM

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!

Mar 14
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McCosh Hall B14: The Hinds Library 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 for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.

Feb 17
Yin Mei choreographs and performs her works worldwide through her company, Yin Mei Dance, and teaches at Queens College. Dahlia/Dixon Li ’14 is an artist and a writer currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
Roberts Dance Studio W201, Lewis Art Complex 5: 00 PM

February 17 and 18, 2022 - 5:00 to 6:30pm

Roberts Dance Studio W201, Lewis Arts Complex

Featuring Yin Mei and Dahlia Li

Nov 30
Lindsay Griffiths, Mary Naydan, John Schulz--Department of English, Princeton University
McCosh 40 12: 00 PM

  

2020-2021

Apr 27
Johan de Jong Leiden University Assistant Professor of Continental Philosophy
zoom 12: 00 PM

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. 

Apr 22
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California
virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

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. 

Apr 13
Ren Ellis Neyra, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English Department, Wesleyan University and Julie Beth Naplin, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Digital Humanities, The New School. 
virtual - requires registration 12: 00 PM

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

Apr 05
Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung in conversation with Prof. Anne A. Cheng
virtual - registration required 4: 30 PM

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.

Apr 02
Claire Greene '13, UCSF Medical School Bhaamati Borkheteria '20, Software Engineer, Amazon
virtual - registration required 12: 00 PM

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

Apr 01
virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

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

Mar 23
Zoom Webinar - registration required 5: 00 PM

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

Mar 18
virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

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

Mar 16
Hsuan Hsu, Professor of English at UC Davis
virtual - requires registration 12: 00 PM

A discussion of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

Event Registration Here: https://forms.gle/nviHRxt5jGCdsJGk6

Feb 16
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Associate Professor of English, African-American and African Studies at Michigan State Universit
virtual - requires registration 12: 00 PM

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

Feb 12
Led by Cassy and Katie James
virtual - requires registration 5: 00 PM

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

Jan 20
virtual 3: 00 PM

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

 

 

 

Nov 20
Jeff Dolven, DUS; Rebecca Rainof, Outreach Coordinator
virtual - requires registration 12: 00 PM

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! 

At-Home Registration Link

2019-2020

Mar 05
Laura R. Fisher, Associate Professor, Department of English, Ryerson University
Hinds Library (McCosh B14) 12: 00 PM

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

Mar 04
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 6: 00 PM
Feb 20
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

This event is open to English Department graduate students only.

Nov 11
40 McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

This event is open to English Department graduate students only.

Oct 23
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM
Oct 08
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 6: 00 PM
Sep 11
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

Open to English Department job seekers only.

Feb 04
Irene Yoon, LARB Workshop Director
McCosh B14 (Hinds Library) 4: 30 PM

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.

 

2017-2018

Apr 06
TBA 9: 00 AM

Open to current Department of English Juniors.

2016-2017

May 31
4 McCosh Hall 10: 00 AM