The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Diaz, is reading from his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao this Wednesday (September 10th) at Politics and Prose at 7 PM (though it’s advisable to be early). This is a great opportunity to meet one of the most celebrated young authors in the country and I hope to see other English undergraduates there!
This Thursday: Room 602, 1957 E Street NW, Elliott School for International Affairs Examining Violence against Women in India: Changes, Challenges, Futures 11 AM-1 PM The panel’s conversation will explore the many complexities of the situation of violence against women in India, and also allow for a discussion of it in a comparative frame, linking…
Poet and faculty member Jane Shore will appear on The Newshour this Thursday night. She will be reading Elizabeth Bishop poems to accompany Lloyd Schwartz’s interview about editing the Elizabeth Bishop Library of America volume coming out on Valentine’s Day. Share on FacebookTweet
On Thursday, October 28, a herd of anxious attendees–students, professors, the book-selling rep–heralded yet another successful reading in the fall JMM Reading Series. At 7:51 pm the doors remained locked; I (perhaps peevishly) took pleasure in each arriving individual, for they approached the shut doors and the unrelenting deadbolt with a fervor I found refreshing….
Drugs. Sex. Money. Excess. Narcissism. Moral depravity. I could be referring to the nightly news, but really I am referring to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. That novel about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty, that slowly sucks you in, thrilling and horrifying you at the same time….
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar was launched last month with a terrific paper by Professor Gil Harris, “The Writing on the Wall: Old Jewry and John Stow’s Urban Palimpsest.” During its initial semester the seminar will focus upon faculty work in progress, with papers circulating two weeks in advance of each meeting. The…
Featuring Professor N. Katherine Hayles, this public lecture will offer a set of criteria by which a system may be judged to be cognitive or not, testing it against minimally cognitive biological lifeforms such as unicellular organisms and plants.
