The English Department is pleased to announce that our 2018 Joseph M. Duffy Lecturer is Deidre Shauna Lynch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. Professor Lynch's lecture, "The Unwritten History of the Woman of Genius (Austen, Staël, Siddons): What She Says, Goes," will take place at 5:30 pm Thursday, September 20, in the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium. A reception will follow.…
A three-day international conference exploring the impact brief medieval Norse settlements have had on cultural imagination in and of the Americas--in novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films, and video games.…
An evening of poetry and conversation with poet Farid Matuk, Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of Arizona.
Matuk, whose linguistic inventiveness continually presses against the confining syntaxes of racist, sexist, and colonialist dehumanization, was born in Peru to Peruvian and Syrian parents, immigrated to the US at 6 and was undocumented until the age of 13. Matuk will read from his latest collection, The Real Horse, sign books and take questions from the audience. …
October 5-7, 2018
&Now is a biennial literary festival known for presenting innovative writing, thinking about writing, and interdisciplinary explorations such as new poetics, performances, narrative, critical, electronic and multimedia projects. In addition to presenting new work, its book fair, panels and readings foster conversation about past, present, and future literary concerns and movements.…
October 5-7, 2018
&Now is a biennial literary festival known for presenting innovative writing, thinking about writing, and interdisciplinary explorations such as new poetics, performances, narrative, critical, electronic and multimedia projects. In addition to presenting new work, its book fair, panels and readings foster conversation about past, present, and future literary concerns and movements.…
October 5-7, 2018
&Now is a biennial literary festival known for presenting innovative writing, thinking about writing, and interdisciplinary explorations such as new poetics, performances, narrative, critical, electronic and multimedia projects. In addition to presenting new work, its book fair, panels and readings foster conversation about past, present, and future literary concerns and movements.…
Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Afterglow (a dog memoir), Inferno (a poet’s novel), Chelsea Girls, and Cool For You. Myles’s many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, as well as grants from Creative Capital (nonfiction) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (poetry), and the an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant.…
The Creative Writing department proudly presents the Sullivan Prize winner (University of Notre Dame Press), John Mort, to give a reading.…