Writing in Displacement
The day-long literary event will feature four Sri Lankan authors uprooted by the civil war in the country. They will read from their works and discuss the challenges of writing from displacement. The...
View ArticleCenter for Democratic Deliberation Lecture: Oliver Baker
Lunch will be served at this event. Please email Melody Gehlbach at mkg13@psu.edu to request a lunch. Nineteenth-century enslaved rebels and militant abolitionists understood slavery to be a war on...
View ArticleFaculty Invites: The Last Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century
As a student and, eventually, professor, Norman Holmes Pearson changed the story of American literature, putting modernist poetry (especially by women) at its center. He was one of the founders of the...
View ArticleEnglish Grad Futures Panel
“Expansive Opportunity: Internships and RAships Outside the English Department” Featuring Grace King, Javiera Morales-Reyes, and Sierra Parker This panel convenes scholars who have held internships or...
View ArticleGraduate Student Spring Resident Talks
Our spring graduate scholars, Daniela Farkas (Spiral Out: A Genealogy of the Coincidence of Opposites in Twentieth-century Art & Literature) and Tashi Namgyal (The End of the Priest-Patron...
View ArticleCALS Spring Symposium “Horizons”
The Center for American Literary Studies presents the 2025 CALS Spring Symposium. 11:00 a.m. “(Even) In Terrible Days, For the Love of Reading.” Presented by Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of...
View ArticleEnglish Hangout
Open to all undergraduates. Come schedule and chat with current English majors and minors. Free coffee, tea, and treats. The post English Hangout appeared first on Liberal Arts Events.
View Article“The Public Sphere of First Drafts”
This lecture will be followed by a reception in Welch Building. The shift of the basis of public life from slow and centralized print and audiovisual media to faster, ubiquitous, distributed,...
View Article“Insubordination: Anna Julia Cooper and the ‘Courageous Revolt’ against Jim...
In this talk, Shirley Moody-Turner discusses her biography-in-progress on Anna Julia Cooper, trailblazing Black educator, intellectual, and activist, who fought to maintain and expand Black access to...
View ArticlePoem in Your Pocket Day
Celebrate Poem In Your Pocket Day with the Department of English! Stop by the Burrowes Building Patio and pick up poems written by Penn State English majors. Snacks and drinks provided! Open to the...
View Article“Unprecedented: Memory as Resistance – Queer Archives in a Hostile Present”
The Center for American Literary Studies “Unprecedented” webinar series grew out of the online-only days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time that was often referred to as unprecedented. It once again...
View ArticleKeystone Poetry
University Libraries, Penn State Press, and the Department of English's Creative Writing Program are sponsoring the launch of Keystone Poetry. Join us for readings from the new poetry anthology edited...
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