On April 20, the Leadership and Character Program will welcome award-winning poet Dr. Pádraig Ó Tuama to campus for his talk Virtue and Verse: What Poetry Can Teach Us About Character. The event will be held in Porter Byrum Welcome Center at 5:30 PM and […]
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On March 2, 2026, Dr. David Alff will visit us from the University at Buffalo to give his lecture “How to Identify a Road in Seventeenth-Century England” for the Dean Family Speakers Series. The event will take place at 5pm in Tribble Hall room A110 […]
Categories: Dean Family Speaker Series, Department Events
Dr. Jennifer Lorden, associate professor at William & Mary, will give a talk on Fiction and Belief in Early England on November 11th. The event will begin at 5:30pm in ZSR room 404, and will be free and open to the public. See the lecture […]
Categories: Department Events, Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Join us on October 8th for a talk by Professor Nathan Waddell on “Orwell’s Bullies”! This event will take place at 5:00 PM in ZSR Library Room 404, and will be free and open to the public. Readers everywhere know George Orwell as a scourge […]
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Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden joins us for the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series to present a look at the intersection of indie comics with queer identity through her many graphic novels—from science fiction to memoir to historical retelling. Comics and Queerness in Vermont and Beyond on […]
Join us on April 9th at 5:00PM in Annenberg Auditorium, Carswell Hall, for a poetry reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout. This event is free and open to the campus community and public. Rae Armantrout has published over eighteen books of poetry, including Versed […]
Dr. David Sterling Brown will join us on February 20, 2025 to present his talk “‘Hear Me, See Me’: Sex, Violence, Silence and Othello.” The event will be in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (room 404), and will be free and open to the public. Dr. […]
Categories: Dean Family Speaker Series, Department Events
Elizabeth Hanks will visit campus on September 26 from 3 to 4 PM to give a presentation in Greene Hall room 239. This presentation introduces the design, sampling, and data collection of a new corpus of spoken American English: the Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken […]
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Thursday, November 2, 5pm, The Autumn Room, Reyholda Hall. Sponsored by the William R Kenan, Jr Professorship in the Humanities
Categories: Department Events
Categories: Dean Family Speaker Series, Department Events