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Anglophone Histories
Zachary Leader: Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography
The Creative Writing Concentrators' Ball
Illustrated Poetry: Wordsworth and the Nineteenth Century
Katharine Breen: Degrees of Embodiment
Lynn Festa: The Novel's Lost Causes
Literature & Social Justice: Gabeba Baderoon
Anne Fadiman & Students - 16th Annual Reading at New Haven Library An Hour of Creative Nonfiction
The Yale Review Festival
Self-Portrait @ 50 Symposium
Foundational Courses Lecture: Natalie Diaz
Department Faculty Reading: John Williams & Kate Bolick
Department Faculty Reading: Jill Campbell & Aaron Tracy
Abdulhamit Arvas: Gender Variance and Race in Translation
Yale English Department: Jennifer Egan
Katie Trumpener On Editing and Bogle Corbet: or The Emigrants
Rachel Tzvia Back Poetry Series: Robert Pinsky
Book Launch - Marcel Elias' English Literature and the Crusades
Department Faculty Reading: Susan Dominus & James Berger
Left Literary Studies presents: Organizing Academic Labor
18th/19th Century Colloquium Spring Welcome Party
Department Reading Series: John Durham Peters & Emily Skillings
RGSS Colloquium: Kelly Rich, "Adoption Archives: Documents, Personhood, Justice."
Ben Card, "Heresy-hunting with Thomas Barlow"
Lacey Jones, "Morel Ideas: Having Your Anthropocentrism and Eating It Too"
Yale University Library Book Talk: Elyse Graham
Inappropriations: George Herbert and Aesthetic Education with David Marno
Caitlin Hubbard - Sex, Death, and Tambourines: Spectacle as Political Commentary in the Restoration Horror Play
Criticism & Theory: A Conversation
Dept. Faculty Reading: Emily Thornbury & Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
The Yale Review's Lunch Talk with Alexander Chee: The Writer's Life
Dylan Davidson - Neurological Experiences and Neurological Explanations
Schlesinger Reading Series with Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Book Launch Party: Naomi Levine & Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Wilbur Cross Medal Honoree: John Guillory
Renaissance Colloquium: Jessie Hock
Art Attack Week! Two Events: Mary Louise Schumacher and Hrag Vartanian
Cynthia Zarin to Discuss Next Day at The Study
Art Attack Week! Two Events: Mary Louise Schumacher and Hrag Vartanian
Faculty Reading Series: Marcel Elias & Jake Halpern
Schlesinger Reading Series: Darryl Pinckney
Chubb Lecture: Alison Bechdel
18th & 19th-Century Colloquium: The One vs The Many at 20
Renaissance Colloquium, N. K. Sugimura: Marvell's Milton: 'Paradise Lost' and the Early Modern Sublime
The Yale Review Festival
NHPL: An Hour of Creative Nonfiction with Anne Fadiman
Foundational Lecture Series: Terrance Hayes
Yale Library Book Talk: This Exquisite Loneliness by Richard Deming
Poet Eugene Ostashevsky Reading and Conversation
Department Faculty Reading: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay & Clifton Spargo
Method and Decolonizing Praxis in Literary Studies: Jonathan Kramnick & Ato Quayson
Is There a Formula for a Bestseller or Hit?
Department Faculty Reading: Joe North & Marie-Helene Bertino
Finzi-Contini Lecture: Teju Cole on Louise Gluck's Last Three Books
Schlesinger Visiting Writers Series: Sigrid Nunez
Literature and Social Justice: Carina del Valle Schorske
Renaissance Colloquium: Kate Needham
Rachel Tzvia Back Poetry Lecture: Natalie Diaz
Americanist Colloquium: Melissa Barton
The Annual June Jordan Lecture: Kevin Quashie
Americanist Colloquium: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Yale Library Book Talk series: Caleb Smith
Mark Strand Memorial Reading: Claudia Rankine
Faculty Reading Series: Naomi Levine & Maggie Millner
John Christophe Schlesinger Readings Series: April Bernard
Department Reading Series: Margaret Homans & Christian Wiman
Medieval Colloquium: Gabrielle Bychowski
John Christophe Schlesinger Reading Series: Phillip Lopate
A Reading for Louise Glück
Early European Puppetry Studies Conference
Americanist Colloquium: Glenda Carpio
Medieval Colloquium: Emma Maggie Solberg
Department Faculty Reading Series: Marc Robinson & Michael Cunningham
Shakespeare's First Folio Symposium
Literature and Racial Justice: Jiayang Fan
English Institute: Catastrophe
Renaissance Colloquium: Valerie Traub, "Racializing Sexuality in Early Modern Erotic Narrative"
Creative Reading: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Popular Romance Fiction: The Literature of Hope
Renaissance Colloquium: Ashley Sarpong
Creative Writing Concetrators' Ball
RGSS Colloquium: Sierra Lomuto
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Writing Memory
Renaissance Colloquium: Russ Leo
Anne Fadiman & Students: 14th Annual Reading at New Haven Library
Foundational Courses Lecture: Tracy K Smith
Left Literary Studies: John Guillory
TYR: Spring Festival
Department Faculty Reading: Margaret Spillane & Ardis Butterfield
Department Faculty Reading: Jonathan Kramnick & Adam Sexton
Writers Craft Q&A with Louis Menand
Left Literary Studies: Bruce Robbins
18th/19th Century Colloquium: Stephanie DeGooyer
Rachel Tzvia Back Poetry Lecture: Tyehimba Jess
Francis Conversations with Writers: Emily Bernard
Department Faculty Reading: Tasha Eccles and Danielle Chapman
Urgent Questions: The Relevance of American Literature
James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture: “What Could a Vessel Be?” by Christina Sharpe
18/19c Colloquium: Ronjaunee Chatterjee
Renaissance Colloquium: Bernadette Andrea
Department Faculty Reading - Ernest Mitchell and Deb Margolin
Writing Histories of the Present Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in conversation with Daniel Hosang and Elizabeth Hinton, Moderator: Leah Mirakhor
Poynter Series: Antwaun Sargent
12th Annual Dissertation Symposium
Schlesinger Reading Series: Saskia Hamilton
Americanist Colloquium: Ben Mangrum
Symposium on Black Environmentalisms
Schlesinger Reading Event: Rachel Kushner
A Reading of "America" and a Conversation with Fernando Valverde and Carolyn Forché
Renaissance Colloquium: Noémie Ndiaye
Department Reading Series: Caleb Smith & Meghan O'Rourke
Under One Roof: A Liturgically Inflected Poetry Reading and Conversation
Senior Essays
English Department Faculty Reading Series: Markovits & Green
13thAnnual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History
Anglophone Histories
18th & 19th-Century Colloquium: The Novel and the Numbers
Creative Writing Concentrators' Ball
Foundational Courses Lecture Series: Louise Gluck
TYR Poetry Reading: Writing in an Age of Crisis, with Roger Reeves and Rachel Mannheimer
Renaissance Colloquium: Jennifer Morgan
Literature & Racial Justice Series: Randall Horton
Department Reading Series: Cajetan Iheka & Peter Cole
Renaissance Colloquium: Dianne Mitchell
Americanist Colloquium: Beth Piatote
Poynter Lecture: Hua Hsu
TYR: Careers in Book Publishing with Rachel Mannheimer
Craft & Career Talk: Nancy Meyers
Department Faculty Reading: Jessica Brantley & Richard Deming
Poynter Lecture: Ben Mauk
18/19th Century Colloquium: Pierre Saint-Amand
Americanist and 20th/21st Century Colloquia: Sarah Daw
M. Remi Yergeau, "Intrusive Trans Thoughts: Rhetorics of Exposure and Pathology in Behavioral Intervention Technologies"
Traveling Black: Race and Resistance on on the Road, the Rails, and the Skyways
Behind the Scenes with Glen Powell: Making a Scripted Podcast
Department Faculty Reading: Marta Figlerowicz & Amity Gaige
Americanist Colloquium: Sarah Daw
Renaissance Colloquium: Hannah Marcus
Ellen Cushman, "Cherokees Writing Resilience: Hidden Literacies of Collective Action"
Renaissance Colloquium: Performing Restoration Shakespeare
Americanist Colloquium: Joshua Bennett
Artist Steve Locke: Memorialization and the Built Form
US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
America on Fire: Police Violence and Black Rebellion since 1968
Virtual Chat with author Angeline Boulley: Fire Keeper's Daughter
Renaissance Colloquium: Sophie Richardson
Dionne Brand: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
Department Faculty Reading: Joe Cleary & Anne Fadiman
Kate Briggs: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone
Nathan Alan Davis: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
Americanist Colloquium: Greg Barnhisel
Canisia Lubrin: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
Caribbean Studies Working Group: Ren Ellis Neyra
Natalie Scenters-Zapico: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
Department Faculty Reading: Langdon Hammer and Donald Margulies
Renaissance Colloquium: Eric Song
Kaiama Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being"
Renee Gladman: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
From Factory Town to Hospital Town: Labor and Democracy in the Rustbelt
The Origins and Durability of Anti-Black Racial Criminalization in the United States
Vivian Gornick: Windham-Campbell Prizes Virtual Festival
Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature
Creative Writing Concentrators' Ball
Department Faculty Reading: Langdon Hammer and Donald Margulies
Poetics Working Group & Renaissance Colloquium: Lucía Martínez Valdivia
TYR Talks, James Merrill: His Letters and Legacy
American Education and Domestic Imperialism
Department Lecture Series: Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Does Post-Democracy Need Universities? Higher Education After 2020
Decolonizing the Museum
Foundational Courses Reading Series in conjunction with the Schlesinger Series: Natasha Trethewey
Department Faculty Reading: Jill Richards and Sarah Stillman
(An)notation: an open roundtable with Roger Mathew Grant and Anna Zayaruznaya
Department Lecture Series: Carissa Harris
Write America: Book Revue with Anne Fadiman, George Howe Colt, and Carl Phillips
Ecocriticism and African Diasporic Cultural Production Panel
African Writers in Conversation Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Richard J. Powell: "Hurston's Law, or a Philosophy of Decor," 2021 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture
Mondays at Beinecke: Richard Wright and Ghana with Kodwo Eshun
Department Reading Series: Ruth Yeazell & Verlyn Klinkenborg
Mondays at Beinecke: Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell Papers with Michael Kelleher
18th & 19th Century Colloquium: Walpole Series
Biography Symposium: Hermione Lee & Stacy Schiff
Traphagen Alumni Speaker: Sarah Holdren
Biography Symposium: Ruth Franklin & Imani Perry
Biography Symposium: Langdon Hammer & Terrance Hayes
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Mondays at Beinecke: Sterling Brown, James Weldon Johnson, and Modern Poetics with Ben Glaser
TMS Colloquium: Anahid Nersessian
Department Lecture Series: Ayanna Thompson
Department Faculty Reading: Katie Trumpener & Cynthia Zarin
LAE Colloquium: Curating the Environment: Conceptions of Nature in Museums and Archives
Poynter Fellowship: Roberta Smith
Art, Culture, and Politics: A Conversation with Jeremy Tiang
Alternative Careers for Graduate Students in English: A Panel Series
Department Reading Series: Steph Newell and Caryl Phillips
Blue(s) as Cymbal: Fred Moten
10th Annual Dissertation Symposium

Please note: Some English Department events will be held over Zoom. Please see the event page for details.

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