Unless otherwise noted, all events occur on Friday at 4 p.m. in the English Program lounge (room 4406).

February 1
Open Meeting on the English Program Self-Study

February 8
John Brenkman, The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought Since September 11  

February 15   
Student publications forum:
Greg Pardlo, Totem, & Richard Tayson, The World Underneath

February 22
Meena Alexander, Quickly Changing River (poems), with Wayne Koestenbaum

February 29
9 a.m. – 10 p.m. ESA Conference: Talking Trash: Rethinking the Abandoned, the Recovered, and the Depraved
2 – 4:30 p.m. The Culture of Appearances in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with Francesca Canadé Sautman, Martin Elsky, and Eugenia Paulicelli (room 9204) [cosponsored with Fashion Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, French, Psychology, and Women’s Studies]

March 7
Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland, "'And [if] hit any pintell beare': Sacred and Social Epistemologies in the Chester Slaughter of the Innocent" [cosponsored with Theatre and Medieval Studies]

March 14
Open House for Prospective Students

March 20 (Thursday)
Writing Across Borders – Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, and Meena Alexander; moderated by Harold Augenbraum (Segal Theatre) [cosponsored with Women’s Studies]
 
March 28
The Medieval Study: Annual Graduate Student Conference: Here Be Monsters: Beasts, Beastliness, and Hybridity in the Long Middle Ages
4 p.m. Jes Battis, visiting post-doctoral scholar: "Queer Future:  The Writing-Lives of LGBT Youth" 

April 4
Theorizing Blackness Conference (Africana Studies Group)
1 p.m. Workshop on the Oral Examination
2:30 p.m. Workshop on the Dissertation Prospectus
4 p.m. “The Female Body in Arab and American Women's War Poetry”

April 10-11
External Program Review Site Visit

April 11
2 p.m. Tatiana Boborykina, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg State University, Russia): On using the life and works of Dickens in a theater project for Russian university students

April 18
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group Conference: Renaissance Afterlives
Shakespeare Lecture

April 19-27
Spring Recess

May 2
Annual Victorian Conference: Victorian Aging and Last Works
2 p.m. Workshop on the Comprehensive Exam

May 9
How to Do Things with Words and Other Materisls: Exhibit/Discussion

May 16
2 p.m. Job Forum
4 p.m. Open Executive Committee Meeting
5 p.m. Poetry Reading
6 p.m. Spring Revels