English Department Archive of Announcements
Monday, May 13, 1:00 p.m.
This year, in addition to conferring standard degrees on our graduates, the department will grant a Ph.D. posthumously to Mortimer Lenane O’Connor, who was a doctoral student in English at Penn from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s. Mort, as he was known, had completed his courses and exams and was nearly finished with his dissertation when he was deployed to Vietnam. He served there as Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Army’s 1st...
Monday, May 13th, 11:30-1
We will toast our graduating seniors with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries (from about 11:30/12-1) in Fisher-Bennett Hall, 2nd floor.
This is a great opportunity to congratulate the seniors in person and meet their friends and families.
Hope to see you there!
English Department Professor and classically trained pianist Tsitsi Jaji is featured in the Harvard Gazette. See here for the full story.
The English Department Undergraduate Party will take place Thursday, April 25th in Fisher-Bennett Hall, 1:30-3 pm, in rooms 222-224 (the undergraduate lounge). There will be awards, delicious food, and some fabulous entertainment (read: faculty performing in skits).
Hope to see you all there!
Thursday, April 25, 2013 • 6:00 p.m. • The Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia
Hilary M. Schor • Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Law • University of Southern California
Join us for a celebration and discussion of Hilary Schor's new book, Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism (Oxford UP, 2013). With opening remarks...
a book party & reading
Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00 PM in the Arts Café
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk
Join us at Writers House on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00 PM, for a celebration of RECALCULATING, the newest book by beloved Penn prof and poet CHARLES BERNSTEIN, published just last month by UChicago press. Bernstein's first full-length...
The English UAB Presents....A Student Faculty Tea with: Professors Melissa Sanchez and Salamishah Tillet
"Why Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History"
Tuesday, April 16th, 4:30-5:30 pm
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
DATE CHANGE: Monday, April 15th, 2013
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
hosted by: Emily Steiner
featuring Herman Beavers, Tsitsi Jaji, Bob Perelman, Taije Silverman, Danny Snelson, Emily Steiner, and the Beowulf class.
Come hear Penn...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
4:30pm
Faculty Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
April 3, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Peter Conn, Professor of English and Education Emeritus at Penn, discusses his book, “Adoption: A Brief Social and Cultural History.”
Penn Bookstore. Info: 215-898-7595 or www.upenn.edu/bookstore.
“Conn’s book is an...
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