Professor Dillon lectures at the Mahindra Humanities Center
February 6, 2013 at 6:00 pmProfessor Elizabeth Dillon will deliver a talk in the American Literature and Culture seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center (12 Quincy Street) at Harvard University on Wednesday, February 6th, at 6:00 p.m. The title of the talk is “Kinship Imagined and Unimagined: The Atlantic Origins of the Novel.” All are welcome
Barrs Lecture Series: Mary Loeffelholz, “American Martian Poetry”
October 25, 2011 at 12:00 - 1:30 PMHumanities Center Issues of Immigration Panel
October 27, 2011 at 6:00 - 7:30 PMModerated by Professor Lori Lefkovitz
Graduate Studies Workshop: After the MA
November 8, 2011 at 12:30 - 1:30 PMDissertation Defense: Tanya Zhelezcheva
November 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM-1:15 PM“The Poetics of the Incomplete in the Works of Thomas Traherne (c.1637-1674)”
Spring 2012 Registration Begins
November 14, 2011General registration information can be found at http://www.northeastern.edu/registrar/banner.html.
Graduate Studies Workshop: Conference Talks & Abstracts
November 29, 2011 at 12:00 - 1:00 PMAn American Poet in the 21st Century
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 5:00 PM in 421 Snell LibraryPulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück will read from her work as part of a series of events connected with Snell Library’s exhibit featuring Emma Lazarus, another famous American poet. Glück is the the author of numerous books of poetry including A Village Life: Poems; Averno, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages; and Vita Nova, winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker’s Book Award in Poetry. The event is free and open to the public.
Humanities Center: Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series
December 5, 2011 at 12:00 - 1:00 PM“‘Do You Remember the Days of Slav’ry?’: Creolizing the Neo-Slave Narrative in Contemporary Caribbean Cultural Production”
Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Preparation Workshop
January 24, 2012 at Noon-1 PMLocation: 400B Holmes Hall
2012 EGSA Conference
March 31-April 1, 2012 ”Memory Remains”
Conference Schedule
8th Annual Peter Burton Hanson Memorial Lecture
April 12, 2012 at 7 PMReading and Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. More information can be found on the Northeastern Humanities Center website at http://www.northeastern.edu/humanities/events/chimamanda_ngozi/.
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze Dissertation Defense
April 24, 2012 at 1-3 PMGraduate Program End-of-Year Reception
May 2, 2012 at 4-6 PMA New Translation by Francis Blessington- Trojan Women by Euripides
May 18th-June 2nd, 2012Directed by Benjamin Evett
New Graduate Student Orientation
September 4, 2012 at 1:30-2:45 PMThe Department of English’s Graduate Coordinator, Professor Elizabeth Dillon, will touch on a few key aspects of starting the Master’s and Doctoral programs here at Northeastern. All new students are expected to attend.
New MA Luncheon
September 4, 2012 at NoonFollowing the New Student Orientation (10-11:30 a.m. in 400B Holmes Hall), new M.A. students are invited to stay for a casual luncheon with faculty advisers and peer mentors. This is a great opportunity to get to know each other and learn about the opportunities, challenges, and culture of M.A. program in English at Northeastern University. Lunch will be provided.
Please RSVP by August 24. Be sure to inform Melissa (m.daigle@neu.edu) about special diets or food allergies.
Annual Fall Graduate Programs Reception
September 4, 2012 at 3-5 PMThe Department of English’s new and returning graduate students, faculty, and staff gather at Our House East to celebrate the start of another academic year. Appetizers will be served, and there will be a cash bar.
Welcome Week Departmental Gathering (Undergraduate Program)
September 4, 2012 at 2-3 PMDepartment Meeting & GSC Meeting
September 10, 2012Department Meeting: 11:45 AM, 472 Holmes Hall
GSC Meeting: 2 PM, 4ooA Holmes Hall
2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group
September 20, 2012More information can be found at http://babel-meeting.org/2012-meeting/2012-program/.
Graduate Program Presentation: Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online
September 25, 2012 at **NOON**Teaching 2.0: Faculty Perspectives & Practices
November 17 2011 at 8:30 - 4:15English Department Professors Neal Lerner and Patricia Sullivan and doctoral student Genie Giaimo will present on a variety of teaching tools and strategies at “Teaching 2.0: Faculty Perspectives & Practices,” a colloquium presented by EdTech on Thu, November 17 2011, 8:30 – 4:15. All are welcome! For more information, please visit the colloquium website: http://www.northeastern.edu/edtech/demonstrations_events/teaching_20_faculty_perspectives_practices
English Major’s Pizza Party
October 3, 2012 at NoonGraduate Program Workshop: Conference Talks and Abstracts
October 19, 2012 at 2-3 PMA presentation for graduate students by Professor Kimberly Juanita Brown and Professor Neal Lerner, Department of English. Please RSVP to m.daigle@neu.edu.
“The Emerging Landscape of Digital History: Archives as Platforms, Software-Assisted Research, and New Forms of Scholarly Communication”
November 8, 2012 at 3-4:30 PMPublishing – A Presentation for Graduate Students
November 8, 2012 at 2-3 PMStephanie Pappas Dissertation Defense
November 20, 2012 at 10 AM-12PM“Research Shows: Recasting Research Instruction in Writing-about-Writing Approaches to First-Year Composition” All are welcome.
A Talk by Patrick Mullen, College of Social Sciences and Humanities “New Management: Aesthetics and the Queer Politics of Form”
February 4, 2013 at 12:00-1:00 pm, 426 Renaissance ParkNORTHEASTERN HUMANITIES CENTER PRESENTS:
FACULTY WORKS-IN-PROGRESS COLLOQUIUM SERIES SPRING 2013
Lunch Provided
Peter Burton Hanson Lecture with Dr. Jill Lepore
February 28, 2013 at 5 PM“The Archive and the Editor: Or, What Happened to Benjamin Franklin’s Sister’s Letters”
This year’s Peter Burton Hanson lecture will be Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Chair of the History and Literature Program at Harvard University, and also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Please do save the date!
“alt/” EGSA Graduate Student Conference
March 15, 2013The Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association’s (NU EGSA) seventh annual conference, alt/, is interested in discussions of how a consideration of alt transforms the production, reception, and interpretation of cultural materials. The conference schedule is available at http://www.northeastern.edu/english/graduate/egsa/2013-egsa-graduate-student-conference/.
Jennifer Sopchockchai Bankard Dissertation Defense
March 19, 2013 at 2:30-4:30 PM“Testing Reality’s Limits: ‘Mad’ Scientists, Realism, and the Supernatural in Late Victorian Popular Fiction”
Homage to Henry
March 27, 2013 at 12:00 pmA Dramatization of John Berryman’s The Dream Songs
Adapted and Performed by
Jim Vrabel
Admission Free
Sponsored by Northeastern University English Department
courtesy of Prof. Francis S. Blessington
Arturo Zilleruelo Dissertation Defense
April 23, 2013 at 10 am-Noon“‘Severer Interventions’: William Wordsworth and the Play of the Line”
Danielle Skeehan Dissertation Defense
April 24, 2013 at 9 am-11 am“Creole Domesticity: Women, Commerce, and Kinship in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Writing”
James Richie Dissertation Defense
April 24, 2013 at 4 pm-6 pm“Third Way Poets: Navigating the Ontological/Epistemological, Subjective, and Linguistic Uncertainty of Modern and Postmodern Poetry”
Aparna Mujumdar Dissertation Defense
April 25, 2013 at 10:30 am-12:30 pm“Colonial Education, Mimicry and Forms of Counter Knowledge: Representations of Schooling in the Novels of Naipaul, Barnes, Brodber and Ghosh”