Event Types
Location
EDWP New Instructor Training
EDWP New Instructor Training
Graduate English New Student Orientation
Graduate English New Student Orientation (Invitation Only)
Fall Reception (Department of English)
The Department of English Fall Reception welcomes faculty, graduate students and staff back to campus.
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
English Department Faculty and Staff Portraits
Open to all current English Dept. faculty, GSI's and staff. Michigan Photography will be on site to take a professional portrait for...
English Department Faculty and Staff Portraits
Open to all current English Dept. faculty, GSI's and staff. Michigan Photography will be on site to take a professional portrait for...
Fall Kick-Off Meeting
Nineteenth Century Forum (NCF)
The Nineteenth Century Forum would like to invite you to our first meeting of the fall semester! On Monday, September 9, at 4:00pm, in...
ASC Reading Group
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
In preparation for Prof. Saidiya Hartman's visit to UM on September 25th to deliver the annual Heberle lecture in the Department of...
Workshop on Interdisciplinarity
Workshop with Andrea Henderson, Professor of English at UC Irvine
Professor Henderson will meet with graduate students in order to discuss the special challenges of doing interdisciplinary work, from doing...
Interest Group Orientation-- Department of English
Learn best practices regarding event planning and financials for Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops (RIW) in the Department of English.
Gala Mukomolova Roundtable Q&A
Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish,...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
Characterization and Combination
Lecture by Andrea Henderson, Professor of English at UC Irvine
Professor Henderson's talk will explore the power of combinatorics—a popular subfield of Victorian mathematics—to illuminate the...
Gala Mukomolova Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish,...
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism
An Eisenberg Forum
During the global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the...
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism
An Eisenberg Forum
During the global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the...
2019 Flu Shot Clinic
Please see flyer for important details. For questions regarding insurance coverage please email: UMFluClinics@med.umich.edu
Critical Conversations: Mass Media
Michael Awkward | Nilo Couret | Joshua Miller | Lisa Nakamura | Sara Blair (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Queer Migrant #Latinx Poemics / Unincuirporated
Performance and Q&A with Urayoán Noel (NYU)
The American Studies Consortium and the Global Postcolonialisms Collective present a hybrid creative-critical presentation by Prof. Urayoán...
Wayetu Moore Roundtable Q&A
Wayétu Moore’s debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years. It was named a best book of 2018...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
Wayetu Moore Reading and Book Signing
Wayétu Moore’s debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years. It was named a best book of 2018...
Heberle Lecture - Saidiya V Hartman
Contact amyarger@umich.edu for more details.
Conference Preview Panel
Jeremy Glover | Katie Hummel | Janée Moses | Yeshua Tolle
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies workshop for a panel featuring the work of graduate students who will be presenting at...
ASC Lecture. Finding the South in the Global South
May Hawas, American University of Cairo
Is there such a thing as ‘world literature from the global south’? Perhaps the strongest conjunction between the theories of the global...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
Patricia Akhimie Workshop
Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University) will present a workshop for graduate students.
Patricia Akhimie Lecture
"The Qualities of Breeding”: Race and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice
Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University) will deliver a public lecture....
Lecture: The Shadow of Diagnosis: Mental Illness and Black Queer Desire
GerShun Avilez (Maryland)
The American Studies Consortium presents a lecture by Prof. GerShun Avilez (Maryland).
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
Critical Conversations: Sexualities
Charlotte Karem Albrecht | GerShun Avilez | Sarah Ensor | SaraEllen Strongman | Valerie Traub (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Craig Dionne Workshop
Hamlet and Cognitive Ethology
Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University) will present a workshop for graduate students....
Craig Dionne Lecture
“Paleo Hamlet and Cognitive Ethology”
Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University) will deliver a public lecture....
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
Dismantling Caseism & Racism: Symposium
Continuing the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies (A/PIA) Program & the Ambedkar Association of North America have co-organized a symposium at...
CM Burroughs Roundtable Q&A
CM Burroughs’ book of poems, The Vital System (Tupelo Press), illuminates what she calls "the protective capability of violence.”...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
CM Burroughs Poetry Reading & Book Signing
CM Burroughs’ book of poems, The Vital System (Tupelo Press), illuminates what she calls "the protective capability of violence.”...
Macarena Gomez-Barris lecture
Details forthcoming
ASC Reading Group
Stephen Best, None Like Us
In preparation for Prof. Stephen Best's visit to UM to deliver the keynote lecture at the "African American Literature and Culture...
Richard T. Rodríguez Lecture
Sponsored by the Critical Contemporary Studies workshop. More info forthcoming
"Writing Aware" Reading and Q&A with Jess Row: White Flights
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination (Graywok Press, August 2019) is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
African American Literature and Culture Now
A two-day symposium about the central questions animating 21st-century Black Studies. More information forthcoming
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM....
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Keynote Lecture by Stephen Best
The goal of this symposium is to bring together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss...
African American Literature and Culture Now
A two-day symposium about the central questions animating 21st-century Black Studies. More information forthcoming
Critical Conversations: Dissertation Showcase
Kyle Frisina | Michael Hoffman | Talin Tahajian | Sunhay You | John Whittier-Ferguson (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
