2019 Emily Dickinson Lectureship in American Poetry
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in...
View Article“Earth: WTF is this Place?”
An Earth Day talk by Dorion Sagan. Sagan is a prolific science and fiction writer, author of some twenty books, including the recent Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science, and the...
View Article“Technopsyence and Afro-Surrealism’s Cripistemologies” presented by Olivia...
New psychiatric research leashes mobile device data to neuroscientific and genetic research for the purpose of resolving weaknesses in psychiatric nosologies. Digital psychiatric treatment tools,...
View Article“Ontological Limits of the Digital” by Aden Evens
Digital technologies are nearly ubiquitous and serve a great many purposes, but this very heterogeneity discourages an analysis of universal characteristics of the digital, including consideration of...
View Article2018 Marathon Read: Pages from 1968
This year Marathon Read joins in the commemoration of 50 years since the watershed year of 1968. Marathon Read will feature texts written or published in 1968, including Philip K. Dick’s novel Do...
View Article“Active Learning in The New College Classroom”
The Fisher Family, Robert and Marie Secor, and the John Moore Teaching Mentorship in English present Christina Katopodis. How do we make the transition from the hierarchical, inequitable, output-driven...
View ArticleWorkshop: Active Learning with Confidence (and without the Burnout)
The Fisher Family, Robert and Marie Secor, and the John Moore Teaching Mentorship in English Present Christina Katopodis. We know from the learning sciences that active learning is the best way to...
View ArticleField Work: Journal Editors on Shaping Intellectual Life in the Academy
This year’s CALS spring symposium focuses on the perhaps underestimated ways in which editors of scholarly journals influence the trajectories of conversations in various literary fields. Five editors...
View ArticleCenter for Democratic Deliberation Lecture: Ekaterina V. Haskins
“Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia” Please email Johey Verfaille to reserve a lunch for this event. Thirty years after the breakup of the Soviet...
View Article2024 Center for Democratic Deliberation Kenneth Burke Lecture: Eric King Watts
“Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World” Postracial Fantasies and Zombies examines the ghostly and horrifying figure of the zombie across several...
View ArticleThe Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Richard Purcell
This talk comes out of a couple of current book project that attempts to theorize the relationship between blackness, art, and the cultural politics of labor throughout the 1970s and into the Great...
View ArticleThe Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Lisa Siraganian
In law, an “artificial person” is a non-human legal entity—not a single human being, but an organization, such as a corporation, that the law recognizes as a “fictitious person.” But what exactly is...
View ArticlePoetry Salon with Nicole Cooley
Nicole Cooley will discuss her new project and read documentary poetry about trash and the Metro New York area. She is the author of seven books of poems, including Mother Water Ash. Her first book,...
View ArticleRolling Reading Series Presents Jai Chakrabarti
Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World and the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. His short fiction has been anthologized in The O. Henry...
View ArticleRolling Reading Series Presents Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick is the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College. Recent awards include a 2023 Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing...
View ArticleThe 2024 Emily Dickinson Lecture presents Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. He is the author of Deaf Republic...
View ArticleRolling Reading Series presents Jami Nakamura Lin
Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the illustrated speculative memoir The Night Parade. A former Catapult columnist, she’s been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, and other...
View ArticleThe 2025 Fisher Family Writer-In-Residence: Kelly McMasters
Kelly McMasters is a professor, nationally bestselling author, and former bookshop owner living in New York. Along with The Leaving Season, she is the author of Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir of an...
View ArticleRolling Reading Series presents Adrienne Su
Adrienne Su is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Peach State (2021) and Living Quarters (2015), and one collection of essays, Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet (2024), which focuses on food and...
View ArticleRolling Reading Series presents Jamil Jan Kochai
Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award and a winner of the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the 2023 Clark...
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