Event Types
Location
Publication Workshop with Professor Zachary Samalin, Assistant Professor of English (U Chicago)
Professor Zachary Samalin, Assistant Professor of English (U Chicago)
Please join us for a workshop for graduate students on the publication process. Professor Samalin will talk more specifically and in depth...
Reading Workshop Meeting
Emil Ferris' "My Favorite Thing is Monsters
The Transnational Comics Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop is pleased to host a reading group featuring Emil Ferris' graphic novel,...
English Internship Showcase
Presentations and Q&A with local Ann Arbor companies looking for English majors as interns.
Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop Reading Group
Orly Castel-Bloom's AN EGYPTIAN NOVEL
For the pre-circulated workshop material, from Orly Castel-Bloom's An Egyptian Novel, please contact Elizabeth McNeill (emcneill@umich.edu),...
Candidate Recruitment Event
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Xylem Open Mic
Join Xylem for an open mic night!...
Graduate Student Workshop with Virginia Jackson
A conversation with Virginia Jackson to discuss two of her published papers: “Specters of the Ballad” (Nineteenth Century Literature,...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Forgetting Lyric: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper & American Sentiment
Virginia Jackson (Irvine)
The American Studies Consortium and the Poetry and Poetics Workshop present a lecture by Prof. Virginia Jackson (Irvine)....
Roundtable: “What Is Genre?”
Virginia Jackson (Irvine) with Annika Pattenaude, Annie Bolotin, and Talin Tahajian
A panel-style conversation that will begin with brief comments from Jackson and three University of Michigan graduate students: Annie...
Valerie J. Traub Distinguished University Professor Lecture
Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre
Valerie Traub, Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor, will speak about her current research on the prehistory of normality.
Critical Conversations Graduate Panel
Temporality, Histories, and the Now in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Sponsored by the Early Modern Colloquium...
Brent Hayes Edwards Lecture
Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation: Film Screening and Lecture
Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia) will present his digital restoration, from the original 16mm reels, of the legendary short film Sweet Willie...
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought IV: On Literature
Public lecture with Jonathan Culler (Cornell) and Yopie Prins (Michigan)
The Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory Workshop is proud to have Jonathan Culler (Cornell) and Yopie Prins (Michigan) present two talks...
The Post-Structuralist Turn?
A Seminar with Jonathan Culler (Cornell)
Jonathan Culler will meet with graduate students and faculty to discuss this recent paper on post-structuralism. RSVP. Light refreshments...
Graduate Student Workshop with Brent Edwards
A discussion with Brent Edwards geared towards graduate student interests. Pre-circulated reading TBA.
My Name is Afrika: Keorapetse Kgositsile, Black Arts Movement, and Polyglot Internationalism
Uhuru Phalafala
South African national poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile’s work is firmly anchored in the Tswana oral and literary traditions shaped by...
Candidate Event
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Candidate Event
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey Workshop
Interdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene
In this workshop, DeLoughrey will pre-circulate the introduction to her new monograph, Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019). She...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Elizabeth DeLoughrey Lecture
Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene
Recently scholars have called for a critical ocean studies that engages the largest entity on our planet in relation to multispecies being,...
Candidate Event
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Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Water"
EJ Westlake / Leela Fernandes / Brendan Haug
During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...
Michigan English Faculty Panel
Marjorie Levinson, Adela Pinch, Antoine Traisnel
Join The Nineteenth Century Forum to hear updates from Michigan English faculty members Marjorie Levinson, Adela Pinch, and Antoine Traisnel...
Workshop for Cecilia Morales, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature
Please join the Early Modern Colloquium for article workshop for Cecilia Morales, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature. This...
Governing Faculty Meeting
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Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
"Sacramental Thinking and Jewish Erasure in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Destruction of Jerusalem"
Kara McShane, Ursinus College
The Drama Interest Group presents a lecture by Professor Kara McShane of Ursinus College.
Critical Conversations -- Memory
Naomi André | Sara Blair | Angela Dillard | Kristin Hass
Please join us for a conversation about Memory and Contemporary Studies...
Lecture by Simone Chess, Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University
12:00pm - 1:30pm in 3154 Angell Hall...
Transnational Contemporary Literature Paper Workshop w/ Nadav Linial
Hosted by the Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop. Please email Elizabeth McNeill (emcneill@umich.edu), Nadav Linial...
Candidate Event
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Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Development"
Susan Najita / William Glover / Perrin Selcer
During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...
Critical Conversations Grad Panel: Genre and Multigeneric Writing
American Studies Consortium
Join the American Studies Consortium for a Critical Conversations graduate student panel on "Genre and Multigeneric Writing." The Critical...
Candidate Event
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Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Nirvana Tanoukhi Lecture
“Hating and Relating: Trump, (World) Literature, and Kant’s Aesthetics”
Tanoukhi's lecture examines an ongoing public debate about the use of "relatable" in the literature classroom and social media, in order to...
Dissertation Chapter Workshop
Annie Bolotin
Part of the Poetry & Poetics Workshop roundtable series. Please email Zoey Dorman (zdorman@umich.edu) to receive a copy of the paper. Coffee...
Nirvana Tanoukhi Workshop
Writing for Publication and Professionalization Strategies
Tanoukhi will talk about writing for scholarly publication and professionalization strategies/experiences by referencing two essays...
Critical Conversations -- Feminisms
Adela Pinch | Cathy Sanok | Xiomara Santamarina | Ruby Tapia
Please join us for a transhistorical conversation about Feminisms....
Candidate Event
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Candidate Event
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Candidate Event
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Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Candidate Event
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Governing Faculty Meeting
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Early Modern Colloquium Write-o-thon
Join the Early Modern Colloquium a day or writing, snacks, and more writing in the company of your fellow graduate students. Researchers and...
Winter Solstice Gathering (Department of English)
This gathering warms the hearts of faculty and staff during this season of cheer.
