English
Past Events
Tita Chico ’91, University of Maryland Professor of English, will discuss the literary history of 18th-century technology.
Monica Youn is an acclaimed poet and professor, a former constitutional lawyer, and a prominent literary leader.
No reservation required. Open to the public.
Professor Patricia Zakreski, Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, specializes in women’s work, art, and authorship in the nineteenth century. She has published widely on these topics, including several co-edited volumes, and is currently completing a monograph on authorship and the decorative arts.
This event is open to the public.
The film imagines an actress preparing to play Césaire, and encountering and re-examining her own ideas about creativity, love, Black identity, and politics as a result.
Historian of sexuality Jen Manion (Amherst College) gives an oral history of 18th- and 19th-century “female husbands,” the elusive, rebellious and enchanting characters who transed gender, lived as men, and married women.
Campus community only, please.
Lecture by Swarthmore College Professor Rachel Buurma followed by a reception with student posters and refreshments.
This event is open to the public.
The acclaimed author’s reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Free and open to the public, no reservation required.
Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Open to the public, no reservations required.
Hutchinson, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awrads. Free and open to the public.
A lecture by Seth Whidden, Professor of French Literature and Fellow of The Queen’s College of the University of Oxford.
Campus community only, please.
A talk by Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and chief policy architect of the Green New Deal—a policy framework that puts justice at the center of climate action.
Author Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, will be sharing her book, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge. Reception to follow.
A lecture by author Andrea Timár, Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Campus community only, please.
Vassar alum Ross Benjamin ’03 will discuss his Guggenheim scholarship-funded work: An essential new translation of Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries.
The Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Program invites the campus community and the public to hear Michelle Horton discuss her six-year battle to free her sister from incarceration—a local story that turned into a national conversation.
Greenwell is the author of two books of fiction and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. No reservations are required. Free and open to the public.
Professor Miles P. Grier (Queens College, CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center) offers a lecture based on his research on the transatlantic performance history of Shakespeare’s Othello, Shakespeare and early modern science, and Black Atlantic responses from Wheatley to Toni Morrison.
Campus community only, please.
Strain, Professor of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University, will lecture on her experience as a documentary filmmaker of color and woman dedicated to representing issues of race and history in the United States.
Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several bestselling books, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Free and open to the public.
A poetry reading and conversation on women, home, exile, and identity featuring poet-scholar and activist Saba Hamzah.