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Sara Johnson Book Talk: Encyclopedie Noire

(Needham Speaker Series)
Wed, June 5
4-5:30pm
Voorhies 126

Jessica Lewis Luck

John Plotz, Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University

SJ Zhang - Needham Speaker Series

SJ Zhang (University of Chicago), "What Cecilia Knew: Reading Reproduction and Marronage in Records of Recapture" Needham Speaker Series Thursday, May 2 12:30-2pm Voorhies 126 Lunch will be served

Nadia Ellis, English Department Speaker Series

Edgar Garcia, English Department Speaker Series

Talk by 'Ilaheva Tua'one, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Prof. Tua'one's research on 18th-century Pacific travel narratives is grounded in Indigenous studies, Pacific Island studies, and queer and feminist theory.

Professor Katie Peterson's Book Launch, Fog and Smoke

Please join us at 4:30 on Thursday February 15th at the Manetti Shrem Museum in celebrating Professor Katie Peterson's new collection of poems, Fog and Smoke, published by FSG in January 2024. Fog and Smoke is a book about living in California in a time of national and climate

Annie McClanahan, English Department Speaker Series

Phillis Wheatley at 250: A Celebration

Creative Writing Reading Series w/ Jos Charles & Colloquium

Poetics Now Colloquium

Evie Shockley (Rutgers), Catherine Wagner (Miami), and Joshua Clover (UCD)

Held in Voorhies 120, the William Van O'Connor Library

Talk by Jason Moore (Binghamton University)

Held in 126 Voorhies

Sandra Lim and Fanny Howe to give readings from their recent publications

Sandra Lim is the author of two collections of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore, 2006) and the recently published collection The Wilderness (W.W.

Annie Liontas and Naomi Williams to give readings from their recent publications

Annie Liontas' debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner), was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor's Choice and was selected by the ABA as a 2015 Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title.