Events
Current English Scheduling of Events
Spring 2013
- February 14th Reading by Ishion Hutchinson
- When: Thursday, 4:30pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Ishion Hutchinson reads from his poetry as part of the Spring 2013 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series.
- Featuring: Ishion Hutchinson
- February 15th English Department Roundtable with Stephen Thompson
- When: Friday, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
- Location: GS 236
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- Stephen Thompson presents "Failing to write about The Waves." Moderated by Elizabeth Blake.
The paper is available on Blackboard and in the English department mail room.
- Stephen Thompson presents "Failing to write about The Waves." Moderated by Elizabeth Blake.
- February 21st Reading by Dana Spiotta
- When: Thursday, 4:30pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Dana Spiotta reads her fiction as part of the Spring 2013 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series.
- Featuring: Dana Spiotta
- February 26th Lecture by Lawrence Lipking
- When: Tuesday, 4:30pm
- Location: TBD
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- Lawrence Lipking, M. H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, presents a lecture.
- March 1st English Department Roundtable with Emily Rials
- When: Friday, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
- Location: GS 236
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- Emily Rials presents "‘to load his space with muteness’: Bodies of Language in Anne Carson’s Nox.” Moderated by Emma Perry.
The paper is available on Blackboard and in the English department mail room.
- Emily Rials presents "‘to load his space with muteness’: Bodies of Language in Anne Carson’s Nox.” Moderated by Emma Perry.
- March 11th University Lecture by Ann Cvetkovich
- When: Monday, 4:30pm
- Location: GS 258 (English Lounge)
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- Cvetkovich will present a lecture titled "The Art of the Queer Counterarchive."
- Featuring: Ann Cvetkovich (University of Texas at Austin)
- › More Info March 12th Chats in the Stacks with Shirley Samuels
- When: Tuesday, 4:30pm
- Location: Kroch Library, 2B48
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- Shirley Samuels, Professor of English and editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln," will discuss the rhetorical power of Lincoln's prose.
- March 15th English Department Roundtable with Michaela Brangan
- When: Friday, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
- Location: GS 258 (English Lounge)
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- Michaela Brangan presents "'The Eye Resents your Presence': Legal Sight and Personal Witnessing in If Beale Street Could Talk.” Moderated by Danielle Fuentes Morgan.
The paper is available on Blackboard and in the English department mail room.
- Michaela Brangan presents "'The Eye Resents your Presence': Legal Sight and Personal Witnessing in If Beale Street Could Talk.” Moderated by Danielle Fuentes Morgan.
- March 28th Annual Gellman Lecture by Sianne Ngai
- When: Thursday, 4:30pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Ngai's lecture is titled "Literary Gimmicks." The annual Gellman Lecture, which features a distinguished scholar of modern literature, was established by a generous gift by Wendy Rosenthal Gellman '81, who majored in English at Cornell.
- Featuring: Sianne Ngai (Stanford Univ.)
- › More Info March 29th Seminar on Ngai's 'Our Aesthetic Categories'
- When: Friday, 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Location: GS 258 (English Lounge)
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- Join the Modernist Reading Group for a seminar with Sianne Ngai. Relevant materials may be found here:
Introduction
Cuteness
Interesting
- Featuring: Sianne Ngai (Stanford Univ.)
- Sianne Ngai's visit is made possible through a generous gift from Wendy Rosenthal Gellman '81.
- Join the Modernist Reading Group for a seminar with Sianne Ngai. Relevant materials may be found here:
- April 4th Reading by Lynn Emanuel
- When: Thursday, 4:30pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Lynn Emanuel reads from her poetry as part of the Spring 2013 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series.
- Featuring: Lynn Emanuel
- April 8th University Lecture by Terry Eagleton: "The Death of Criticism"
- When: Monday, 4:30pm
- Location: Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Featuring: Terry Eagleton (Literary Critic)
- › More Info April 11th Celebrating Chinua Achebe: Marathon Reading of 'Things Fall Apart'
- When: Thursday, 10:00am to 2:00pm
- Location: GS 258 (English Lounge)
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- You are welcome to pick a favorite passage from Things Fall Apart to read, or to simply read a passage or two from a communal copy.
- Featuring: Ishion Hutchinson and Mukoma Wa Ngugi
- › More Info April 12th & 13th Conference: New Directions in Law and Literature
- When: Friday, 1:30 pm
- Location: A. D. White House
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- This two-day conference seeks to take stock of existing formations within law and literature criticism and to wrestle with current developments in the field. Sponsored by Cornell Law School, Society for the Humanities, and Cornell Dept. of English.
- Featuring on Friday:
- Bradin Cormack (U Chicago)
- Henry Turner (Rutgers)
- Elliot Visconsi (Notre Dame)
- Eric Cheyfitz (Cornell)
- Paul Saint-Amour (U Penn)
- Priscilla Wald (Duke)
- Organized by Bernadette Myler (Cornell Law School and Dept. of English) and Elizabeth Anker (Cornell Dept. of English).
- When: Saturday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Location: A. D. White House
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- For the full schedule, click on the More Info link.
- Featuring on Saturday:
- Eric Slauter (Chicago)
- Wai Chee Dimrock (Yale)
- Simon Stern (Toronto)
- Imani Perry (Princeton)
- Martin Stone (Cardozo)
- Joseph Slaughter (Columbia)
- Janet Halley (Harvard)
- Peter Goodrich (Cardozo)
- Julie Stone Peters (Columbia)
- Ravit Reichman (Brown)
- Hilary Schor (USC)
- Jeannie Suk (Harvard)
- April 12th English Department Roundtable with Christine Yao
- When: Friday, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
- Location: GS 258 (English Lounge)
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- Christine Yao presents "American Chimeras: The Bestial Spectres of American Indian Representations.” Moderated by Ben Tam.
The paper is available on Blackboard and in the English department mail room.
- Christine Yao presents "American Chimeras: The Bestial Spectres of American Indian Representations.” Moderated by Ben Tam.
- April 18th Cleaveland Memorial Reading
- When: Thursday, 4:30pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Poet Joanie Mackowski and fiction writer Stephanie Vaughn, both Cornell faculty, present the Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading. This event is part of the Spring 2013 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series.
- Featuring: Joanie Mackowski and Stephanie Vaughn
- April 25th HUMAN MACHINE FICTION
- When: Thursday, 7:00pm
- Location: 120 Physical Sciences Bldg
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- Cornell's MFA fiction students will read stories written in collaboration with artificial intelligence technologies such as Cleverbot.
- Featuring: MFA Fiction Writers
- Christopher Drangle
- Valer Popa
- Karen Elterman
- Adam Price
- Isabelle Gilbert
- Lauren Schenkman
- Joseph Neal
- Caroline Zeilenga
- Cornell's MFA fiction students will read stories written in collaboration with artificial intelligence technologies such as Cleverbot.
- April 26th English Department Roundtable with Sang Wu
- When: Friday, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
- Location: GS 258 (English Lounge)
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- Sang Wu presents her paper. Moderated by Ben McCormick.
The paper will be available on Blackboard and in the English department mail room.
- Sang Wu presents her paper. Moderated by Ben McCormick.
- May 19th MFA Graduation Reading
- When: Sunday, 6:00 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Join us for a reading by the graduating MFA students. A reception will follow in Goldwin Smith 258 (English Lounge).
- Featuring:
- Christopher Drangle
- Adam Price
- Stevie Edwards
- Matthew Ritger
- Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez
- Lauren Schenkman
- Emma Catherine Perry
- Caroline Zeilenga