Event Types
Location
Job Talk
Details to follow
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Job Talk
Details to follow
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Reading with Q&A with Jane Wong
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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Conferencing and Conferences in the Environmental Humanities
First-time and seasoned conference attendees are encouraged to attend this discussion of conferencing and conferences in the Environmental...
Craft Lecture: Memoir or the Ghost Archive
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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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...
Faculty Meeting
Meeting of tenure track faculty and lecturers III/IV. Details to follow.
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Screening: Rebel With a Clause
Film by Brandt Johnson, Starring Ellen Jovin
Docu-Comedy presented by Departments of English Language & Literature and Linguistics...
English Faculty Meeting
Tenure stream faculty meeting Additional details to follow
Environmental Humanities Workshop: Dissertation Chapter Discussion
We will discuss a chapter from Samantha Adams' (English and Women's and Gender Studies PhD) dissertation, "A Body of Water...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
The Last Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century
Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University)
Norman Holmes Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliance among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced...
STS 25th Anniversary Conference | Keynote, "Inside-Out Earth"
Gabrielle Hecht
New energy systems accumulate on top of old ones. So do their wastes. Today, massive increases in discarded matter remain invisible in...
STS 25th Anniversary Conference, March 14
The U-M Science, Technology, and Society Program is excited to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a conference featuring distinguished...
Publication Methods Workshop: From Draft to Print
Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University)
Learn more about the academic book publication process, from the first draft to the printed, published monograph! We will pre-circulate a...
Professionalization in (and Beyond!) the Environmental Humanities
Life after a graduate degree in the humanities can be daunting no matter what you specialize in. Please join us for a frank yet hopeful...
Critical Conversations
Dissertation and Thesis Showcase
Critical Conversations is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Media Industries and Their Fans: Mixed Method Approaches to Studying Media Cultures
Erin Hanna, Derek Johnson, Suzanne Scott, and Benjamin Woo
Date: March 20, 2025 Time: 4 pm - 5:30 pm North Quad Space 2435 Open to Public Reception to follow
Reading and Q&A with Monica Youn
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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CRAFT LECTURE: Proleptic Form: Toward a Poetics of Self Defense
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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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...
Lamstein Lecture in Children's Literature with Erin Stead
Storytelling for the tender years: How picture books connect us
Erin Stead is an American illustrator. She has made many bestselling books including the Caldecott Medal award winning A Sick Day for Amos...
A Conversation about Black Methodologies with Prof Katherine McKittrick
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen's University
Katherine McKittrick researches in the areas of Black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She authored...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Reading and Q&A with Weike Wang
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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Craft Lecture: The burden and responsibility of representation in literary craft
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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The After Beckett: Theater and Performance for the 21st Century
A Conference in Honor of Enoch Brater's 50 Years of Teaching at the University of Michigan
featuring Patrick Barry, Jessica Brater, Nicholas Delbanco, Dawn Dietrich, Jason Fitzgerald, Deborah Geis, Laura Kasischke, Katherine Kelly,...
Hopwood Tea
All are welcome to tea, coffee, light refreshments, and conviviality in a beautiful, historic setting.
Reading and Q&A with Distinguished Poet in Residence Ilya Kaminisky
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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Distinguished Poet in Residence Craft Lecture: Your Own Singing School: How to Create Your Own Tradition
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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2025 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Lecture
Hala Alyan, 2025 Hopwood Lecturer
All are welcome to celebrate the winners and finalists of the 2025 Hopwood Awards. Award-winning poet and novelist Hala Alyan will deliver...
Hopwood Reading with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is the author of two novels, The Arsonists' City and Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab...
End of the Year Celebration
Join the Department of English Language and Literature for an End of the Year Celebration!
2025 Capstone Program Symposium
Class of 2025 English Capstone students in Research and Creative Writing will read excerpts from their theses.
2025 Undergraduate English Commencement Ceremony
Further details will be available on our department website mid January 2025
Hopwood Banned Books Tea
Join us for tea, coffee, conversation, and a raffle of books that have been featured on banned books lists or that address the issue of book...
Heberle Award and Lecture
Mel Y. Chen
Mel Y. Chen (they/them+) is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at...