Event Types
Location
Early Modern Colloquium Graduate Conference
How to be Global in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
This is an annual interdisciplinary graduate conference featuring graduate student panels, faculty respondents, and keynote lectures....
Complex Spaces: Navigating Text & Territory
22nd Charles F. Fraker Graduate Conference
Please see the program below (under "Web and Social") for complete event details....
Hopwood Awards Ceremony + Reading
Linda Gregerson
Please join us as we celebrate the fall winners of the 2018-19 Hopwood Underclassmen awards....
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Animals and Capture"
Antoine Traisnel / Bénédicte Boisseron / Joseph Trumpey
During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...
Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop Reading Group
Olga Tokarczuk's FLIGHTS (Man Booker International Prize Winner 2017)
For the pre-circulated workshop material, from Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, please contact Elizabeth McNeill (emcneill@umich.edu), Nadav Linial...
Resource Sharing for Survivors of Sexual Assault & Harassment
Diversity Committee
The Diversity Committee welcomes survivors of sexual assault and harassment to share space and resources with other survivors. We will meet...
Third Annual MUSE Conference
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Conference
The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019....
Angela Naimou Lecture
Border Lamentations
Can modes of lamentation in poetry contribute to current thought on international border regimes? How do literary forms and temporalities of...
Author's Forum Presents: "Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question": A conversation with Bénédicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan
Bénédicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan
Bénédicte Boisseron (Afro-American and African studies) and Aliyah Khan (English, Afro-American and African studies) discuss Boisseron's...
Third Annual MUSE Conference
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Conference
The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019....
Critical Conversations -- Diaspora
Manan Desai | Annette Joseph-Gabriel | Angela Naimou (Clemson) I Supriya Nair I Madhumita Lahiri (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about...
Third Annual MUSE Conference
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Conference
The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019....
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Critical Conversations -- Dissent
Hadji Bakara | Bénédicte Boisseron | Ingrid Diran | Colin Gunckel | Ruby Tapia (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...
Department Meeting
contact amyarger@umich.edu for more details.
GPC Reading Group: Migritude by Shailja Patel
Please join the Global Postcolonialisms Collective for a reading group on Migritude by Shailja Patel (Kaya Press, 2008). Light refreshments...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers...
Center for Research on Learning (CRLT)
Whitney Peoples
Whitney Peoples of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching will be leading a faculty workshop on whiteness in the classroom. This...
Undergraduate Studies Pedagogy Workshop
contact: Professor Andrea Zemgulys, zemgulys@umich.edu
Roundtable with Naomi Long Madgett + Gabrielle Civil
Naomi Long Madgett and Gabrielle Civil will join us in the Hopwood Room for a public conversation about living a literary life: What does it...
Transnational Poetics Reading Group
Harris Feinsod’s THE POETRY OF THE AMERICAS & Jahan Ramazani’s A TRANSNATIONAL POETICS
The Poetry and Poetics Workshop and Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop host a reading group on one chapter from each book. Free...
The Weinstein Effect: Breaking the Stories That Spurred a Movement
Ronan Farrow and Ken Auletta
Wallace House Presents an evening with reporters Ken Auletta and Ronan Farrow as they discuss their individual attempts to get to the truth...
Critical Conversations: Dissertating Across Disciplines (Graduate Student Panel)
Joey Gamble | Mika Kennedy | Elizabeth Tacke | David Wade | John Whittier-Ferguson (chair)
Please join us to learn more about the interdisciplinary research of graduate students in the English Department. Part of the Critical...
2019 Graduate English Welcome Weekend
Graduate English Welcome Week
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
2019 Graduate English Welcome Weekend
Graduate English Welcome Week
Zahid Chaudhary Workshop
A conversation with Zahid Chaudhary (Princeton).
Critical Visualities 3
2019 conference of the Visual Culture Workshop
The Visual Culture Workshop (VCW) convenes the third annual Critical Visualities Conference in order to ask the timely questions: “What...
Critical Conversations -- The Novel
Alicia Christoff | Danny Hack | Akil Kumarasamy | Antoine Traisnel | Gaurav Desai (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...
Stephane Robolin Lecture
In this talk, Stephane Robolin (Rutgers) will explore the role of libraries as institutions central to the circulation of banned literature...
Evie Shockley Workshop
Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies.
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
English Advisory Board Meeting
Annual English Advisory Board Meeting
Lecture: "On Shakespeare's Roman Trails"
Peter Holland
How do we address Shakespeare’s Roman plays to contemporary audiences? We can make our productions strongly, even aggressively about our...
Transnationalism and Poetry Lecture and Roundtable
Harris Feinsod and Jahan Ramazani
A visit from Harris Feinsod (Northwester University) and Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia) that will feature a lecture and roundtable....
Transnationalism and Poetry Lecture and Roundtable
Harris Feinsod and Jahan Ramazani
A visit from Harris Feinsod (Northwester University) and Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia) that will feature a lecture and roundtable....
GPC Reading Group: Edwidge Danticat
The Art of Death
Please join the Global Postcolonialisms Collective for a reading group on The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat (Graywolf Press, 2017). We...
Department Meeting
contact amyarger@umich.edu for more details.
Hopwood Tea
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all....
Lecture: "The Bishop, the Devil, and the Playwright: Responding to Air Pollution in Early Modern England"
Dr. Chloe Preedy, University of Exeter
Hosted by the Animal Studies & Environmental Humanities RIW. Please RSVP to lageiger@umich.edu or cvfair@umich.edu
Graduate Student Workshop with Harry Stecopoulos
Harry Stecopoulos
Please join us for a graduate student workshop with Harry Stecopoulos, where we will be reading from his book-in-progress Telling America's...
Beatnik Diplomacy: Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, and the US-Chinese Writers' Conferences
Harilaos Stecopoulos (Iowa)
A lecture on issues of scale in the new sociologies of literature.
Graduate + Undergraduate Hopwood Awards + Lecture
Hilton Als
Please join us as we celebrate the winners of the 2018-19 Hopwood Awards....
End-of-Year Meeting about English Department Interest Groups
An annual planning meeting for interest groups affiliated with the English Department.
