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Korey Garibaldi & Kinohi Nishikawa at Princeton Public Library: Impermanent Blackness
Feb 22, 2023, 7:00 pm

Korey Garibaldi discusses his recently published book, Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America, with Kinohi Nishikawa at Princeton Public Library, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm.

Location
Princeton Public Library
Speaker
2022 - 2023
A Reading from Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Dec 2, 2022, 4:30 pm

Author A.J. Verdelle will read from her book Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

Location
McCosh 40
Speaker
2022 - 2023
On Books, Bibliography, Bibliophilia & Associational Literary History
Nov 17, 2022, 12:00 pm

Please Join a Lunchtime Conversation

On Books, Bibliography, Bibliophilia & Associational Literary History

with Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

and Denise Gigante, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Stanford University

Prof. Gigante will discuss her new…

Location
McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Nov 3, 2022, 6:00 pm

Please join Labyrinth for a conversation between Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Princeton, Gene Jarrett, and his colleague in the English Department, Simon Gikandi, about Dunbar who, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist.

Location
Labyrinth Books & Via Zoom
Speaker
2022 - 2023
20th Century Workshop
Oct 28, 2022, 12:30 pm

Ian Davis, Department of English, Princeton University

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

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

Location
virtual
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Personal Limits: a conversation series by Magical Habits, Labyrinth Books, and Princeton Publc Library, convened by Prof. Monica Huerta
Apr 8, 2022, 6:00 pm

Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.

In the second half of this series, conversations turn from Professor Huerta’s own book Magical Habits to her guests’…

Location
virtual
Speaker
2021 - 2022
On Hugh Kenner
Apr 7, 2022, 4:30 pm

"On Hugh Kenner"  participants are Walter Benn Michaels, Oren Izenberg, Michael Clune, Megan Quigley, and Todd Cronan.  Hosted by Joshua Kotin

University ID is required to attend. Masks must be worn. 

register here: https://forms.gle/uisqnfpTPFjMHCJU8

Location
Chancellor Green 103
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Personal Limits: a conversation series by Magical Habits, Labyrinth Books, and Princeton Publc Library, convened by Prof. Monica Huerta
Mar 30, 2022, 6:00 pm

Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.

In the second half of this series, conversations turn from Professor Huerta’s own book Magical Habits to her guests’ writing and their…

Location
virtual
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Reading John Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes"
Jan 20, 2022, 5:00 pm

Please join us.  Dozens of readers, one great poem.  To register for this ZOOM event, please contact Susan Wolfson ([email protected]) by January 17.

Location
online
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Becoming Human: Book Talk and Discussion with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Apr 22, 2021, 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,…

Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
2020-2021
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric in the Nineteenth Century with Virginia Jackson
Mar 25, 2021, 4:30 pm

Join the Department of English in welcoming our Bain Swiggett Distinguished Visitor in Poetry & Poetics, Virginia Jackson, on March 25th at 4:30pm. 

Professor Jackson will discuss a pre-circulated section of Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric in the Nineteenth Century. 

Virginia Jackson is UCI Endowed Chair of Rhetoric…

Location
virtual - registration required
Speaker
2020-2021
A Reading of Colm Tóibín’s Pale Sister by Lisa Dwan
Nov 23, 2020, 5:00 pm

The Department of English and the Council of the Humanities invite you to a rehearsed reading of Colm Tóibín’s Pale Sister by Lisa Dwan. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness this amazing performance.

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Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
2020-2021
Intersections Working Group presents Lindsay V. Reckson
Oct 21, 2020, 12:00 pm

Intersections Working Group presents a discussion of Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU, 2020) with author Lindsay V. Reckson, Associate Professor of English at Haverford College.

Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
2020-2021
Common Works Undergraduate Book Club Meeting
Oct 15, 2020, 4:30 pm

To have the chance to discuss We the Animals in an informal and friendly setting, we're holding a book club meeting

October 15th, 4:30-6pm, moderated by graduate students Lindsay Griffiths and Alex Diaz-Hui. We encourage you to attend. 

Register here: 

Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
2020-2021
Intersections Working Group presents Joshua Bennett
Sep 23, 2020, 12:00 pm

Intersections Working Group presents a discussion of Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard, 2020) with author Joshua Bennett, Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

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Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
2020-2021
Summer Book Club: Meeting 6
Aug 4, 2020, 2:00 pm

Sarah Rivett

2019-2020
Summer Book Club: Meeting 5
Jul 28, 2020, 2:00 pm

Esther Schor

Claudia Rankine, Citizen

2019-2020
Summer Book Club: Meeting 4
Jul 27, 2020, 3:00 pm

Anne Cheng and Paul Nadal

Ling Ma, Severance

2019-2020
Summer Book Club: Meeting 3
Jul 14, 2020, 2:00 pm

Russ Leo

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2019-2020
Summer Book Club: Meeting 7
Jul 8, 2020, 4:00 pm

Ingrid Norton

2020-2021