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You are cordially invited to the book launch event in celebration of  “Race” (Routledge New Critical Idiom series). The book will be released on February 2, 2019. Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/Race-Critical-Idiom-Martin-Orkin-dp-1138904694/dp/1138904694/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=   A light dinner reception will be from 5:30 – 6:00 PM, with food available on a first come, first serve basis. This event is open to the…

Student organizers Tess Gann and Sara Policastro welcome the crowd to Open Space.      Jenny McKean Moore Writer Brando Skyhorse talking to student poets.  It was standing-room only in the hallway outside the living rooms.    Share on FacebookTweet

The Department of English is very happy to announce one of our first events for the Fall 2013 Semester.  On September 12, 2013, from 4-6 PM, please join us in Marvin Center 301 for “No Longer Secret: Willa Cather’s Letters. A Conversation with Andrew Jewell and Marilee Lindemann.”  This event will be moderated by our…

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Reading Distance:  Port Louis, Cairo, Beijing A Public Lecture by Michael Gibbs Hill Friday, February 24, 2017 from 4-5 pm National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library, 1st floor This lecture explores a startling coincidence in world literature: the overlapping careers of Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924) and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1876–1924). Both men—who died in the…

I had been in line for over ninety minutes. In this time I could have gone to a movie, but I needed to meet the man who made me laugh harder in just two hours than I have in an entire month. There’s no doubt about it, if you thought David Sedaris was hilarious in…