The editors of The European Review of Books will share tales of felicity and failure from their years as magazine makers. The ERB, which began as a crowd-funded idea in 2021, was first published in June 2022 and has continued to grow, attracting new readers of all backgrounds across the globe. In this playful…

The editors of The European Review of Books (Sander Pleij, Wiegertje Postma, and George Blaustein) will hear 3-minute pitches from audience members who’d like to propose an article idea for publication in the magazine. We encourage attendees to have a look at the ERB website to get a sense of the kinds of things they publish,…

Jarcho proposes that we can best understand literature’s relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism.

In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works…

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group — which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and…

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Johnny Stanton was born in 1943 in Manhattan, the son of Irish immigrants from Galway. He was an altar boy and Eagle Scout who attended Catholic schools & eventually graduated from Columbia University, where he fell in with many poets…

What’s the point of an English degree? Of language and literature? Of life itself? With some people catastrophizing that the humanities are in danger and the world itself in a volatile state, it’s not uncommon to feel a bit existential. We know these are difficult, maybe unsolvable questions, but we’d love for the speakers to help us begin to…

English welcomes back four recent undergraduate alumni to talk about their career paths since Princeton, and how they have used skills gained in the major.

In King’s Vibrato Maurice Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the Black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King’s vocal timbre, Wallace shows how the qualities of King’s voice depended on a mix…

Have questions about the English minor?

The Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Russ Leo, will be holding the information session to cover some common questions:

Please stop by to…

Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Press present an evening of readings by the poets whose collections are the most recent in the press’s Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The series is edited by Susan Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus. Stewart…

Want to learn more about what kinds of careers are possible in academic publishing?

Join the English Department and the staff at Princeton University Press to learn more about the ins and outs of academic publishing!

Presentations will be in-person and onscreen. Q&A will follow. Boxed lunches will be provided…

In her new cultural history of the United States, Sara Marcus shows how artists, intellectuals, and activists turned political disappointment—the unfulfilled desire for change—into a basis for solidarity. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, one of the most forceful and clear progressive voices in the United States today, joins the author for a…

Sara Marcus discusses her new book Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis and its origins in her Princeton dissertation, along with discussion of her time as a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Princeton. Diana Fuss serves as interlocutor.

Writer Inge Bondi sheds fresh light on the life of her close friend and colleague, the Austrian American photographer Ernst Haas (1921–86), an early innovator in color photography, whom she first met in New York's Magnum offices in 1951. Bondi shares unique memories of this brilliant and very private man alongside reproductions of his letters,…

Join Robert Sullivan for a lunchtime walk and talk that can be visited, too, in the online modes suggested in the signup form. This will be a tour-walk where we talk and think in heads-together moments. You might walk the walk or be at home, or elsewhere. You could do a little of the walk, or walk to the end, which is hoped to be the&nbsp…

Join us for an unconventional conversation with media theorists John Durham Peters and Shannon Mattern. Modeled as a cross between new media — an AMA (‘ask me anything’ event online) — and old media (scraps of paper with single words pulled from a jar), scholars will talk through a wide range of issues having to do with media theory, the data…