Undergraduate dates/deadlines
Upcoming Events
Optional senior comprehensive exam review session for graduating seniors. Refreshments provided.
Past Events
2018 - 2019
Calling all rising juniors! If you are considering declaring either English or Comparative Literature and would like to study abroad in Fall 2019, then please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 13th for lunch and conversation. Francesca Schenker from the Office of International Programs (OIP) will go over the application requirements, upcoming deadlines and help answer your questions. Professor Bradin Cormack and past University College of London (UCL) students will also be available to answer your questions. We hope to see you there!
Not sure what you will be doing after graduation? Join this workshop to learn from Career Services about how you can translate your skills as writers, researchers, critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers to jobs in a variety of industries. Refreshments will be provided. Open to all undergraduate students interested in or majoring in the Humanities.
Register here: https://princeton.joinhandshake.com/events/263142
Seniors & Juniors, Create Your Post-Graduation Roadmap
Not sure what you will be doing after graduation? Join this workshop to learn from Career Services about how you can translate your skills as writers, researchers, critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers to jobs in a variety of industries. Refreshments will be provided.
Open to current undergraduate students majoring in the Humanities.
Endowed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg `71 h03.
Department of English Senior Thesis Deadline:
20 pages and/or 1 chapter due by 12 Noon via Dropbox and to your Adviser
All-day "Writing Boot Camp" for current English majors working on their junior paper or senior thesis. Writing Center Fellows will be hosting workshops at 10:00am for juniors (Managing Your Research Process) and at 2:00pm for seniors (Read, Write, Repeat: Strategies for Transitioning from Research to Writing).
Majors, make sure to RSVP to tarab@ if you plan to attend.
Join us for an evening of laughter and tears as we celebrate the 32nd Anniversary of Top Gun.
Film screening with live commentary by Professor Jeff Nunokawa AND just added, a live performance by QUIPFIRE!
This event is free and open to the public.
Kindly RSVP here:
https://pueng.doodle.com/poll/6axcpgi5dfxnqmrf
ADD TO CALENDAR:
Department of English undergraduate majors and Ph.D. candidates celebrate Friendsgiving.
Questions? tarab@
Princeton students entering the Department of English or the Department of Comparative Literature have the opportunity to spend the fall of junior year at University College London (UCL), the oldest and largest of the constituent colleges of the University of London. This program is a result of the combined efforts of Princeton and UCL faculty members and offers a rigorous, exciting, and rewarding program of study at a top-ranked institution in one of the world’s great capital cities.
In collaboration with the Bread Loaf School of English, the department offers a six-week program of study at Lincoln College, Oxford for rising seniors. Students take a course from an Oxford/Bread Loaf faculty member, choosing among a rich range of topics, from the “Margins of Medieval Literature” to “Shakespeare’s Stage” to the “Modernist Novel.” A Princeton faculty member is also on hand to guide exploration of archives and other resources preparatory to writing the senior thesis.
Join the Princeton University staff for an in-depth discussion on career paths in publishing. Learn how their current entry-level employees landed the job. Preview an upcoming infographic of the life cycle of a book. Tour the facility. Stay for Q&A.
This is event is open to current undergraduate English majors,
RSVPs required via Doodle.
Questions? Contact tarab@
Information session for all current English seniors led by DUS, Professor Tamsen Wolff.
Information session for all current English juniors led by DUS, Professor Tamsen Wolff.
https://path.princeton.edu/orientation/academic-expo
This event, held on the second Monday of Orientation week, is organized to highlight academic departments and resources before first-year students enroll in classes. The Academic Expo brings together the many outstanding departments and programs that Princeton has to offer and encourages first-year students to explore courses and consider various academic options.
Department of English Junior Paper Deadline:
10 pages due by 12 Noon via Dropbox and to your Adviser
2017-2018
Join us, as we celebrate the Class of 2018, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. - McCosh 50 for the presentation of prize awards and class memories. Family and friends are encouraged to attend. Refreshments to follow in the McCosh courtyard. Rain or shine.
General admission. RSVPs not required.
Please see your advisor for instructions and deadline information.
| ENGLISH, Sophomore Advising Sign-In Schedule - 2018 (Class of 2020) | |||
| Date | Time | Room | Professor |
| Tuesday, April 10 | 12:00 - 1:15 | B52 McCosh Hall | Chihaya, Sarah |
| Wednesday, April 11 | 12:00 - 2:00 | 44a McCosh Hall | Stewart, Susan |
| 12:30 - 200 | 47 McCosh Hall | Wolff, Tamsen | |
| ENGLISH, Sophomore Advising Sign-In Schedule - 2018 (Class of 2020) | |||
| Date | Time | Room | Professor |
| Tuesday, April 10 | 12:00 - 1:15 | B52 McCosh Hall | Chihaya, Sarah |
| Wednesday, April 11 | 12:00 - 2:00 | 44a McCosh Hall | Stewart, Susan |
| 12:30 - 200 | 47 McCosh Hall | Wolff, Tamsen | |
| ENGLISH, Sophomore Advising Sign-In Schedule - 2018 (Class of 2020) | |||
| Date | Time | Room | Professor |
| Tuesday, April 10 | 12:00 - 1:15 | B52 McCosh Hall | Chihaya, Sarah |
| Wednesday, April 11 | 12:00 - 2:00 | 44a McCosh Hall | Stewart, Susan |
| 12:30 - 200 | 47 McCosh Hall | Wolff, Tamsen | |
Princeton Previews Open House information session for admitted students and their parents.
| ENGLISH, Sophomore Advising Sign-In Schedule - 2018 (Class of 2020) | |||
| Date | Time | Room | Professor |
| Tuesday, April 10 | 12:00 - 1:15 | B52 McCosh Hall | Chihaya, Sarah |
| Wednesday, April 11 | 12:00 - 2:00 | 44a McCosh Hall | Stewart, Susan |
| 12:30 - 200 | 47 McCosh Hall | Wolff, Tamsen | |
| ENGLISH, Sophomore Advising Sign-In Schedule - 2018 (Class of 2020) | |||
| Date | Time | Room | Professor |
| Tuesday, April 10 | 12:00 - 1:15 | B52 McCosh Hall | Chihaya, Sarah |
| Wednesday, April 11 | 12:00 - 2:00 | 44a McCosh Hall | Stewart, Susan |
| 12:30 - 200 | 47 McCosh Hall | Wolff, Tamsen | |
Tuesday, April 10th @ 12 Noon is the deadline for all English seniors to hand in their Senior Theses. You may drop them off earlier than the deadline during normal office hours, M-Th, 8:30am-4:45pm and F, 8:30am-4:30pm. If you have any questions, please contact your Thesis Advisor our the DUS, Sophie Gee (sgee@).
| ENGLISH, Sophomore Advising Sign-In Schedule - 2018 (Class of 2020) | |||
| Date | Time | Room | Professor |
| Tuesday, April 10 | 12:00 - 1:15 | B52 McCosh Hall | Chihaya, Sarah |
| Wednesday, April 11 | 12:00 - 2:00 | 44a McCosh Hall | Stewart, Susan |
| 12:30 - 200 | 47 McCosh Hall | Wolff, Tamsen | |
Princeton Previews Open House information session for admitted students and their parents.
Open to sophomores interested in learning more about becoming an English Major.
Refreshments provided.
Information Session for Fall 2018:
Fall Semester at University College, London
Princeton students entering the Department of English or the Department of Comparative Literature have the opportunity to spend the fall of junior year at University College London (UCL), the oldest and largest of the constituent colleges of the University of London. This program is a result of the combined efforts of Princeton and UCL faculty members and offers a rigorous, exciting, and rewarding program of study at a top-ranked institution in one of the world’s great capital cities.
Endowed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg `71 h03.
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
Refreshments will be served afterwards. Come chat with other majors.
SOPHOMORE SIGN-IN TIMES:
| APRIL 16-18 | TUESDAY - THURSDAY | 10:00-12:00; 1:30-4:30 |
| APRIL 22 | MONDAY | 10:00-12:00 |
| APRIL 23-24 | TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY | 10:00-122:00; 1:30-4:30 |
Senior Thesis Due - Two Copies, one bound, one unbound, no binders (approximately 80 pages). Due in English Office 22 McCosh by noon.
NEITHER YOUR ADVISOR NOR THE DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVE IS EMPOWERED TO GRANT EXTENSIONS.
LATE JPS MUST BE APPROVED BY THE DEAN OF YOUR RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE AND YOUR ADVISOR IS TO BE NOTIFIED.
NEITHER YOUR ADVISOR NOR THE DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVE IS EMPOWERED TO GRANT EXTENSIONS.
LATE JPS MUST BE APPROVED BY THE DEAN OF YOUR RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE AND YOUR ADVISOR IS TO BE NOTIFIED.