Past Department Events
This page contains links to information pertaining to past events hosted and sponsored by the English Department.
Summer 2011
The Mellon Symposium on Medieval Subjectivity - a week-long conference featuring academics from around the world speaking on topics broadly and specifically dealing with the ideas of "self" and "subjectivity."
Fall 2010
Fifth Annual Digital Humanities Colloquium - Northwestern again hosted the Digital Humanities & Computer Science Colloquium, having previously done so in the summer of 2007.
"The Poem's the Thing: Form, Matter, Affect" - a two-day conference at which twelve Renaissance scholars gathered to speak towards the possibilities and paradigms for reading poetry in a new generation of scholarship.
Spring 2010
"Culture, Politics, and the Dilemmas of African American Citizenship in the Antebellum U.S." - a two-day conference held in conjunction with the Department of History.
3rd Annual Spring Writers' Festival - A three-day festival of master classes, readings, and conversations with Writers in Residence Frank Bidart, Jo Ann Beard, and George Saunders. Portions of the festival were recorded by Chicago Public Radio for Chicago Amplified.
Fall 2009
"Five Muslim American Poets" - five poets read from their work and participated in a syposium entitled "The Muslim American Poet as Self and Other."
Hear the conference recorded by Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified.
"Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun and Beyond" - a two-day conference on the life and career of Liorraine Hansberry 40 years after A Raisin in the Sun debuted.
Summer 2007
Second Annual Digital Humanities Colloquium - a two-day event with the goal of exploring the potential of text and image archiving in an academic setting.
Spring 2007
"Critical Moves" - a symposium in honor of Larry Lipking on the occasion of his retirement.
Fall 2006
The Othello Project - a quarter-long series of lectures and other events, inaugurating the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
Other Department Events
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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 congregate 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
Upcoming Event
New Faculty Wednesdays: Caitlin Fitz (History)
May 16, 2012 • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
