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 and will be free and open to the public. Professor […]
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 description and speaker biography below, and join us at the […]
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 of totalitarianism, a reputation stemming from his most famous books: Animal […]
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 Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at 5:30 pm in Z. Smith […]
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 (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), which received a Pulitzer Prize and […]
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. David Sterling Brown is a tenured Associate Professor of English […]
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 American English (LANA-CASE). The goal of the project is to […]
