Meetings for Majors
Past Events
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.
2022 English Senior Comprehensive Common Works Exam: Part Two of two parts.
Senior English Comprehensive Common Works Exam for Class of 2022, Part One of two parts.
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 catered dinner in Chancellor Green Rotunda from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. RSVPs are a must!
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.
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" 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.
Open to English Concentrators,
To assist with your senior theses or junior papers, graduate students will be on standby on Friday, April 1st, in McCosh Hall rooms 2, 4 and 40 from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. to help you with your projects.
Walk-ins are welcome, and you can stay in the room the whole day (10AM to 4PM) if you'd like.
Lunch will be provided to those students who register for the event by March 29th.
For Current English Concentrators,
To assist with your senior theses or junior papers, graduate students will be on standby on March 25th, in McCosh Hall rooms 2, 4 and 40 from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. to help you with your projects.
Walk-ins are welcome, and you can stay in the room the whole day (10AM to 4PM) if you'd like.
Lunch will be provided to those students who RSVP'd for the event by March 22nd. Didn't get to RSVP in time for lunch? You are still welcome to join us and bring a lunch if you'd like!
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.
The Next Chapter: Career Conversations with Princeton English Alumni 2022.
Please join us on March 2, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. for a Hybrid Event: In-person Student Watch Party and Zoom English Alumni Speakers to meet our panel:
Emma Boettcher '14, Senior UX Analyst @ OSU College of Medicine, former User Experience Librarian @ UChicago
Victoria Davidjohn '19, Writer, Theatre Director, Lighting Designer
Cande Duran '18, HBO Originals Creative Marketing Associate Manager
Marlise Pierre-Wright '12 *16 S11, Northwestern Medical School
Join English Department faculty, Prof. Jeff Nunokawa, in exploring the essential questions, concepts, and writing skills necessary to prepare for the 2022 comprehensive exam. The "Workshops" provide a space for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
Essentials Events are open to junior and senior English concentrators as well as students interested in concentrating in English. No advance reading is required.
Lunch will be provided for students who have RSVP'd by Thursday, March 10, 2022.
Encountering Climate Change in The Great Derangement with Profs. Rob Nixon & Paul Nadal
Join Profs. Rob Nixon and Paul Nadal for a conversation exploring the essentials of reading literature in the age of climate change.
Essentials Events are open to all English concentrators: juniors & seniors.
Register for Event & Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/CWE_Climate22
Events are offered via zoom and with a watch party reserved in McCosh B45.
Encountering Drama in Death and the King's Horeseman and King Lear
Join Profs. Simon Gikandi and Tamsen Wolff for a conversation exploring the essentials of reading drama.
Essentials Events are open to all English concentrators: juniors & seniors.
Register: https://bit.ly/CWE_Drama22
Careers in Academic Publishing: Princeton University Press
Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom. Registration Required.
Please join us on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. via zoom to learn about the ins and outs of academic publishing with the staff from Princeton University Press.
Find out about career paths, internship opportunities, and more.
Question and Answer period to follow.
A lunchtime conversation with Profs. Anne Cheng and Kinohi Nishikawa about Morrison's novels, for beginners and seasoned readers alike (and anyone who just might be taking the Common Exam in the spring). We will read some passages together and dare to ask the question, what are these novels about, anyhow?
Lunch provided to those concentrators who RSVP by Thursday, November 4, 2021.
2020-2021
English Concentrators and Faculty,
Please join us for the 2021 Majors' Colloquium. Our majors have chosen the topic:
Your Faves are Problematic: Reading and Teaching Fraught Texts
And we are thrilled to introduce our department's speakers on this topic:
- Anne A. Cheng
- Jeff Nunokawa
- Kinohi Nishikawa
- Autumn Womack
As we must, we will be meeting virtually via Zoom.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. EST.
Please join us for a Graduate lunchtime conversation with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, author of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (NYU 2020).
Register here: https://forms.gle/7P5RKKbZBaaBpPsW8
Sponsored by: Intersections Working Group, The Department of English, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Center for Human Values.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE: FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST
A Taste of Success: Lunchtime Alumni Career Conversations. English & Tech: Bhaamati Borkheteria '20 and English & Medicine with Claire Greene '13
Come one and all!
Please join the
Department of English
for a
Welcome-Back Get-Together
this
Friday, August 28th at 5:15 p.m. EST
We’ll launch our summer’s
Lit Review and Podcast projects!
Virtual mingling with
the faculty and with your fellow students!
Virtual snacks will be served!
Virtual beverages will be quaffed!
Real conversation will be had despite it all...
Join the Zoom Party
2016-2017
MEETING WITH PROFESSOR WOLFSON WITH SENIOR ENGLISH MAJORS
ABOUT APPLYING TO GRADUATE PROGRAMS, THIS YEAR OR NEXT
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29
4:30 in PROFESSOR W'S OFFICE, 16 MCCOSH HALL (UPSTAIRS)
PLEASE RSVP TO PROFESSOR W (wolfson@)
SO THAT WE KNOW WHETHER WE NEED TO RESERVE A BIGGER ROOM NEARBY
2015-2016
Princeton Bread Loaf Fellow Program at Lincoln College, Oxford -- Information Session
Designed to allow exceptional junior English majors the opportunity to pursue advanced individual research in preparation for senior thesis writing, the Princeton Bread Loaf Fellows Program at Bread Loaf's Oxford campus is an extraordinary opportunity for culturally-linked education.
Once-in-a-lifetime experience for English majors!
Spend the fall of your junior year taking three classes at the distinguished University College London alongside your Princeton junior seminar, taught by a member of the English Department Faculty. The Fall 2016 seminar is an intensive study of the way in which the city, its landscape, its building, spaces and climate has shaped and been shaped by the creative imaginations of great writers. Students will see plays, concerts, museums, and other aspects of the city and country. Not to be missed!
A panel discussion with Princeton alumni speaking about their careers after graduating with a degree in English. Refreshments will be served.
*This event is OPEN TO ALL PRINCETON STUDENTS, UNDERGRADS & GRADS.
2013-2014
Class day reception immediately following in McCosh Courtyard.
Comparative Literature Reception for Graduate Students
2012-2013
IMPORTANT Meeting for all Sophomores interested in the English Department's Princeton in London program, fall 2013. If you're a prospective major who likes the idea of studying in London for a semester, come to our meeting in the Hinds Library, Tuesday February 12, at noon. Pizza will be served.
Seniors meet individually with departmental representative (review graduation requirements).