Most English department events are open to the general public unless noted otherwise.
Upcoming
Final Public Oral Exam: Lisa Kraege
Dec 11, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall B14 (Hinds Library)
Speaker
Affiliation
Department of English
Presentation
"Poetical Geography: The Place of Greece in British Poetics, 1715-1812"
Intersections Working Group: Maurice Wallace
King's Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Feb 13, 2024, 12:00 pm
Location
McCosh Hall B14 (Hinds Library)
Speaker
Affiliation
Professor, Associate Chair, Department of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
‘The Hot Center’: The Literary Establishment, circa 1963
Feb 20, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 40
Speaker
The Histories of Catharsis
Feb 21, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Jones Hall, Room 100
Speaker
Affiliation
Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of English; William and Sue Gross Professor of Theater Studies and English, Duke University
Methodologies for Literary Study
A Lunchtime Workshop Discussion for Graduate Students
Feb 22, 2024, 12:00 pm
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 40
Speaker
Affiliation
Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of English; William and Sue Gross Professor of Theater Studies and English, Duke University
Graduate Students
Nat Turner and the Late Emancipation Novel
Mar 6, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 40
Speaker
Affiliation
Presidential Humanities and Social Sciences Endowed Chair, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Persuasion: Oratory and the Novel
Reception to follow
Mar 18, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Chancellor Green, Room 105
Speaker
Affiliation
Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of English