Past Department Events

This page contains links to information pertaining to past events hosted and sponsored by the English Department.

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

Date & TimeTitle
11/20/2009
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Second meeting of the Humanities Institute Poetry and Poetics Workshop
11/19/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Medieval Colloquium
11/19/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Musicology and Early Modern Colloquium, Roger Freitas
11/12/2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
OPEN HOUSE: ENGLISH MAJOR IN WRITING
10/30/2009
10:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun and Beyond
10/29/2009
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun and Beyond
10/26/2009
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Five Muslim American Poets
10/16/2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
First meeting of the Humanities Institute Poetry and Poetics Workshop
10/15/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Medieval Colloquium
10/13/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Early Modern Colloquium, Mary Floyd-Wilson
10/2/2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
English Department Collation
10/1/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Early Modern Colloquium, Elizabeth Spiller
6/4/2009
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
English Major in Writing Senior Readings
6/3/2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
English Major in Writing Senior Readings
6/1/2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
English Major in Writing Senior Readings
5/29/2009
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
English Department Annual Prize Ceremony
5/27/2009
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Early Modern Colloquium - Kasey Evans
5/14/2009
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Early Modern Colloquium - Linda Austern
5/7/2009
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
A Reading by Poet Evie Shockley
4/24/2009
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Early Modern Colloquium -Brad Gregory
4/21/2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Creative Writing Open House
4/16/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Claudia Rankine Reading
4/15/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Naeem Murr Reading
4/15/2009
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Guided Conversation with Three Authors
4/14/2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dan Beachy-Quick Reading
3/11/2009
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Early Modern Colloquium -Michael Schoenfeldt
2/18/2009
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Early Modern Colloquium - Alan Galey
2/18/2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Early Modern Colloquium - Alan Galey
1/30/2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Alistair Hunt, Univerisity of Wisconsin-Madison
1/27/2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Emily Rohrbach, Hamilton College, talk "Romantic Anticipations and the Ethics of Desire."
1/22/2009
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Medieval Colloquium
1/22/2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Alexander Regier, University of London, lecture entitled The Blue Chasm: Wordsworth's "The Prelude"
1/13/2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Matthias Rudolf, University of Nevada-Reno, will give a talk on “‘Beer, Whisky, Killing, Murder’:
11/5/2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Creative Writing Open House
10/2/2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Creative Writing Annual Welcome Back Gathering
5/22/2008
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Andrew Gibson, Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature
5/13/2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Jonathan Nashel lecture
5/5/2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Suki Kim, Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor in English
4/17/2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Medieval Colloquium 07-08 Series: Steven Kruger (English, CUNY Graduate Center)
4/16/2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
English Major in Writing Open House
4/3/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A Discussion with Writers-in-Residence: Brigit Pegeen Kelly & Abigail Thomas
4/2/2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
A Reading by Writers-in-Residence: Brigit Pegeen Kelly & Abigail Thomas
2/28/2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Medieval Colloquium 07-08 Series: Bernard McGinn (U of C Divinity School)
2/18/2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Allan Isaac, Wesleyan, "Ace and Litotes: Untying 'Nots' in the Black-White Binary"
2/13/2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Kyla Schuller, University of California, San Diego
2/11/2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
John Cutler, UCLA, “‘The poems are signs that tell us things’: Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Performative."
2/7/2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Ivy Wilson, Notre Dame,"Love for the Race: Ethiopia and Trans-Nat'l Ideality ... Age of New Negro."
2/1/2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Jason Puskar, U of WI, Mil, "Stephen Crane's Aimless Battles"
1/31/2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Medieval Colloquium 07-08 Series: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (English, Notre Dame)
1/28/2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Medieval Colloquium - William Paden and Frances Freeman Paden
1/23/2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hsuan Hsu, Yale,“Vagrancy, Comparative Racialization, and <i>Huckleberry Finn</i>’”
12/6/2007
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Medieval Colloquium 07-08 Series: Claire Waters (English, UC-Davis)


Upcoming Event

5 Plus Genres of Chinese Art: Traditional and Contemporary
November 21, 20099:00 AM - 5:00 PM