Upcoming Literary Events
Circulo de lectores y fiesta 121-3
May 22, 2013 • 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Francesca Tataranni: Il fascino ambizioso di Poppea Sabina
May 22, 2013 • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Lecture: Tim Griffin (The Kitchen)
May 22, 2013 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
English Department News and Bulletins
Are you thinking about becoming an English Literature major? Not sure what you can do with a B.A. in English? Come to University Hall 201 at 4pm on Thursday, May 30th to hear four Northwestern graduates discuss where their English Literature degree took them!
Professor Tracy C. Davis's article, "Bram Stoker before Dracula," was published in the January 25th issue of the 2013 Times Literary Supplement.
This issue of TLS also featured a review of Professor Davis's most recent book, the The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance.
Click on the link to watch the video, presented by the Office of Undergraduate Research, of Professor Jules Law discussing the use of the techniques and methodologies of literary criticism to open up new ideas.
Associate Professor Jeff Masten's article, "Bound for Germany: Heresy, sodomy, and a new copy of Marlowe's Edward II," was published in the December 21 & 28 issues of the 2012 Times Literary Supplement.
Associate Professor Vivasvan Soni was awarded the 2012 MLA's Prize for a First Book for Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity.
Read the full press release.
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Northwestern's English Department is an energetic, collegial community of distinguished scholars teaching and publishing in a wide range of literary, cultural, and creative fields, with a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches.
With outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, a newly-designed undergraduate major, and a cohesive Ph.D. program, the department combines the virtues of large scope and intimate scale to foster very close work between students and faculty. Read more
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The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
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Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
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Creative Writing students gather at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
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English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
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Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
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Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert (Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, center)
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English Department faculty and students gathering before the Department's Fall Collation
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Professor Rebecca Johnson speaks at the English Department's Fall Collation
