Professor Tara Wallace: This Weekend at the Jane Austen Society of North America

Please join the English Department faculty for informal and wide ranging conversation. The faculty of the English Department care about you — not just as intellectuals and artists (you wow us every day in those roles), but as young people navigating a difficult present. Please know that our office doors are always open to you….

Margaret Soltan was interviewed recently by Radio Poland, which asked her about her memories of Wojciech Fangor, Poland’s most important modern painter.  You can access that interview via this link. Professor Soltan spoke with the New York Times confirming Fangor’s death; the obituary from October 25 can be accessed here. Soltan will also be giving…

Join us tomorrow, Thursday March 22nd, in Gelman 102 for the next installment of the  Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series  featuring:  Lauren Camp A poet, performer, writer, and educator, Lauren Camp will read from the latest of her three books  of poetry,   One Hundred Hungers,  a collection that “explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and…

                    Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Featuring Kyle Dargan Join us on Thursday, November 19th at 7:30PM in the Marvin center as the Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series features Kyle Dargan, who will read from his new collection of poetry, Honest Engine. Kyle Dargan is the Director of Creative Writing and an Associate Professor at…

From the 8/27/09 Hatchet: Sedaris, Atwood will speak at Lisner Michael Chabon and Al Gore round out the venue’s fall lineup by Sarah Scire Senior News Editor Bestselling authors Margaret Atwood and David Sedaris have been added to the long list of celebrity authors appearing at Lisner Auditorium in the fall. Sedaris, the popular humor…

  Clockwise from Upper Left to Right: Sarah Schulman; Manuel Muñoz; Jordy Rosenberg; K. Tyler Christensen This spring, students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3840W, “Contemporary LGBT Writing,” will have four “live” visits from some of the authors they are reading, and after a class visit, the authors themselves will be virtually on campus for…