Join us in celebrating the work of our graduating second-year MFA students! will include Ahmad Aljawad, Marie Burns, Rebecca Gearhart, Elise Houcek, PJ Lombardo, Misael Osorio-Conde, and Valerie Vargas.
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The Department of English warmly invites you to a retirement celebration for Valerie Sayers with special guest Molly Spencer (ND '94).
Monday, May 17, 2:30 p.m.
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Valerie Sayers, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, is the author of …
Joining Barry McCrea in his monthly conversations about Ireland's Generation X? will be actor and writer Mark O'Halloran.
As an actor he has worked with all the major theatre companies in Ireland. On screen he has appeared in numerous films, most notably as one of the eponymous heroes in Adam & Paul for which he also wrote the screenplay. He has also appears in The Guard…
The series Ireland's Generation X? continues, with this month's conversation one between Professor Barry McCrea, Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the writer Claire Kilroy, who won the Rooney Prize for Literature in 2004 with her debut novel All Summer…
Join us for a book launch of Quint: A Novel by Dionne Irving Bremyer.
The first of our alumni speakers, Leslie Lockett, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University, will offer a workshop for graduate students.
Details will be added closer to the event. …
In collaboration with the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience, the Creative Writing program will be having a book launch for Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. We will be celebrating her new novel, Savage Tongues, which was released in August by Mariner Books.
This lecture outlines the debates on Europe among writers from the Weimar Republic to the exile of the 1940s. The widespread hope in literary circles for a politically united Europe was plunged into a serious crisis by the Nazis' policy of conquest and Germanization. In American exile, under the impression of U.S. democracy, the ideas for the future of the European continent had to be revised: the lecture throws some spotlights on the renewed visions of Europe by Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Hans Rauschning, and Erich von Kahler, among others. …
Please join us for a zoom event in partnership with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies. On the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are celebrating Ballad of a Happy Immigrant, the English-language debut by Leo Boix, who will also be in conversation with Yvette Siegert on the state of British Latinx poetry. The reading will feature special guests including Francisco Aragón, Antonio López, Janel Pineda, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, and Yvette Siegert.…
The Seminar in Eighteenth-& Nineteenth-century Studies, in association with the English department, will be hosting a book launch celebration for Essaka Joshua's new book, Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, from Cambridge University Press. The celebration will take place in 232 Decio Hall on Friday, October 8th at 2:00 pm. A reception will follow on the patio outside of Decio Hall (weather permitting)
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Come listen to the first MFA reading of the semester on October 13th. Readers include Jillian Fantin, Phillip Spinella, & Austyn Wohlers.…
Koritha Mitchell is a literary historian, cultural critic, and professor of English at Ohio State University. She is author of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture.
Come join us in English! Students interested in English as a first or second major are invited to attend one of our upcoming information sessions. Two of the sessions are specially geared to coordinate with fields frequently paired with English, science and business, and one is meant as a general English major information session. RSVP for any of these sessions below:…
Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu…
Come join us in English! Students interested in English as a first or second major are invited to attend one of our upcoming information sessions. Two of the sessions are specially geared to coordinate with fields frequently paired with English, science and business, and one is meant as a general English major information session. RSVP for any of these sessions below:…
A different game plan for autumn weekends. You are invited to join in discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times. Each lecture and Q&A is presented on a home game Friday.
Come join us in English! Students interested in English as a first or second major are invited to attend one of our upcoming information sessions. Two of the sessions are specially geared to coordinate with fields frequently paired with English, science and business, and one is meant as a general English major information session. RSVP for any of these sessions below:…
Come listen to the second MFA reading of the semester on November 10th. Readers include Mary Dwyer, Naima Msechu, and Kalie Pead. …
This reading will be taking place as a dual-mode bilingual poetry event celebrating the first Spanish-language edition of poetry by Tim Dlugos, translated by Carlos Alejandro. The reading will take place in the Notre Dame English department (232 Decio hall) at 4:00 pm EST and will be live-streamed via zoom. Registration for the zoom portion of the event must take place in advance of the reading. Registration can be completed here…
The Sr. Kathleen Cannon, O.P., Distinguished Lecture Series presents:
Hear award-winning writer Lauren Groff speak about her latest novel, Matrix, a bold reimagining of the life of the medieval poet Marie de France as the abbess of a Benedictine monastery in England. Matrix…
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Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay teaches at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include After Jews and Arabs, Memories of Our Future, Islanders, neither wit nor gold: from then, from the warring factions, and a little history. Recent books include the co-edited A Dove in Flight: Poems by Faraj Bayrakdar, with Shareah Taleghani and the New York Translation Collective; a poem sequence, Ghost Talk, and A Bibliography for After Jews & Arabs. He has written and been active on the question of Palestine for decades and, during the wars in ex-Yugoslavia, he was one of the main conduits for translations from Bosnia. He is a contributing editor of The Markaz Review and was given a 2017 American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative (lostandfoundbooks.org…
Next Friday, November 19th, the American Area seminar will be virtually hosting Gillian White, Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
The Americanist area seminar will convene in person in 235 Decio Hall at 3:00 pm and zooming Gillian into the room. The talk is entitled, 'All the Genres a Scene Could Be': The Figure of Genre in Contemporary U.S. Poetries.…
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Salwa Ismail is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research examines everyday forms of government, urban governance, and governmental violence. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in both Egypt and Syria, enquiring into how mechanisms of government and practices of violence come to be formative of ordinary citizens’ political subjectivities. Her book Political Life in Cairo’s New Quarters: Encountering the…
See the fall 2021 semester schedule at registrar.nd.edu.
Dec. 8-9, 11-12: Reading days (no examinations)
Dec. 10, 13-16: Final examinations
See the Registrar's semester calendar.
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