Event Types
Location
English Faculty Meeting
Meeting of the tenure track faculty
2024 Summer Journalism Internship Showcase
English Undergrads, learn where an internship can take you and what these organizations have to offer this summer! Open to English majors...
2024 Department of English Language and Literature MFA and PhD Prospective Students Welcome Week
2024 Graduate English Welcome Week for Prospective MFA and PhD Students
Critical Conversations: Dissertation and Thesis Showcase
At the annual Dissertation and Thesis showcase, fifth year PhD's and second year MFA's present flash talks on their ongoing...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.
Reading and Q&A with Mary Gaitskill
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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2024 Department of English Language and Literature MFA and PhD Prospective Students Welcome Week
2024 Graduate English Welcome Week for Prospective MFA and PhD Students
Giving Words to What is Wordless, Form to What is Formless: The Power of Imagery in Fiction
A Craft Lecture by Mary Gaitskill, Zell Visiting Writers Series
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Presentation and Q&A: “Publishing and Writing Are Not the Same”
Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner, Kwame Dawes
This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate...
Mark Webster Reading Series
Showcasing the work of second-year MFA poets and fiction writers
Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark...
Launch Party
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Volume 16
Hear selections from the 16th edition of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, read by family and friends of...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.
Critical Conversations: Failure
In the third thematic Critical Conversations panel of the winter term, a mixed panel of faculty and student speakers will present 6-8 minute...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.
Career Talk Roundtable: Get Advice from LSA Mentors
How can you tap into the power of shared wisdom and experience? By attending this mentorship event featuring an all-star cast of LSA alums...
Reading and Q&A with Luis Alberto Urrea
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership
Opening & Keynote Speakers: Santa Ono (University of Michigan), Mary Catherine Phee (U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs), Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe (Nigeria’s National Capital) Debbie Dingell (Michigan’s 6th Congressional District), Sarah Mosoe
This two-day conference will feature notable speakers and panelists and explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and...
Lending Attention and the Understory
A Craft Lecture by Luis Alberto Urrea, Zell Visiting Writers Series
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ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership
Opening & Keynote Speakers: Santa Ono (University of Michigan), Mary Catherine Phee (U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs), Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe (Nigeria’s National Capital) Debbie Dingell (Michigan’s 6th Congressional District), Sarah Mosoe
This two-day conference will feature notable speakers and panelists and explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.
Presentation and Q&A: How to Find the Right Agent for You
Samantha Shea, Agent and Vice President, Georges Borchardt, Inc.
This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate...
Talk and Q&A with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu (Assistant Professor of English, Washington University) will give a talk, title TBA, from 4:30pm-6:00pm on Friday,...
2024 Hopwood Awards Ceremony
Kemp Powers, Hopwood Lecturer
All are welcome to celebrate the winners and finalists of the 2024 Hopwood Awards. Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated...
An Evening with Kemp Powers
with Jim Burnstein
Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director Kemp Powers will discuss and show...
Your Book at Each Stage of the Publishing Process: Acquisition, Editing, Publication
Presentation and Q&A with Katie Raissian
This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate...
End of the Year Celebration
Join the English Department for an End of the Year Celebration!
2024 Undergraduate English Commencement Ceremony
Further details are available on our website: https://lsa.umich.edu/english/undergraduate/Commencement-info.html
Welcome Back Celebration
Join the English Department for a Welcome Back Celebration!
2024 Lora Hutchins Heberle Lecture
Professor Kevin Quashie of Brown University
Please join the English Department for the 2024 Annual Lora Hutchins Heberle Lecture with Professor Kevin Quashie of Brown University.
2024 Biannual Lecture in Honor of Barbara Hodgdon
Professor Amy Rodgers, Mount Holyoke College
Join visiting Professor Amy Rodgers for the 2024 Biannual Lecture in Honor of Barbara Hodgdon.
Department Winter Celebration
Join the English Department for a Winter Celebration!