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‘Why do I tell you these things?’ On phatic poetics
Feb. 6, 2025
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

Javadizadeh’s Feb. 5 talk, “Making Contact: On Phatic Poetics,” culminated with close examination of subtle instances of what he termed “the presence of absence.”

Welcoming our community to spring 2025
Feb. 6, 2025
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, English department faculty, students, staff and friends gathered to celebrate the start of the semester, reconnect, and welcome spring visitors.

Anne A. Cheng in conversation with Joan Kee
Jan. 28, 2025
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

Anne A. Cheng concludes her Ordinary Disasters book tour with a conversation with Joan Kee at Columbia University on Feb. 13. Registration is now open.

Faculty author Q&A: Anne Anlin Cheng on 'Ordinary Disasters'
Jan. 27, 2025
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Written by Mary Cate Connors, Humanities Council

Professor of English Anne Anlin Cheng's latest book, Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, was published in September 2024 by Pantheon. 

Author Q&A: Luke Soucy ’19 on ‘Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation’
Jan. 24, 2025
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Written by Mary Cate Connors, Humanities Council

Luke Soucy ’19's first book project, Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation, was recently shortlisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Poetry.

Spatial sound, virtual reality, and Mendelssohn’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'
Jan. 21, 2025
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Written by Alexis Branagan, Princeton University Concerts

Professors of English Jeff Dolven and Nigel Smith and lecturers Bailey Sincox and Chesney Snow wrote essays for Princeton University Concerts' Jan 11-14, 2025 presentation.

Faculty author Q&A: Rhodri Lewis on 'Shakespeare’s Tragic Art'
Jan. 8, 2025
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Written by Mary Cate Connors, Humanities Council

Courtesy of the Princeton University Humanities Council, a Q&A with Rhodri Lewis on his latest book, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art. 

Books by Cheng, Griswold, Lewis make year-end ‘best-of’ lists
Dec. 16, 2024
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Written by Jamie Saxon and Rebekah Schroeder, Office of Communications ; Sarah Malone, Department of English

Books by English faculty Anne A. Cheng and Rhodri Lewis and 1995 alumna Eliza Griswold have been selected for 2024 year-end “best of” lists.

Brandi Bushman explores structures of feeling in Native American literature
Dec. 12, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

In her final public oral exam, Bushman connected recent works by contemporary Native American authors to theories, among others, those developed by Glen Coulthard and those she presented publicly for the first time in this talk, part of her final public oral exam.