Upcoming Events
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Mar195:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
JOIN US for a panel discussion featuring distinguished Penn English alumni! This event will showcase the diverse career paths open to English majors and others studying the Humanities, and is open to all students at Penn.
Our distinguished panelists are:
DR. VIVIAN LEE, English Major - University of Pennsylvania Class of 1999
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Mar20(All day)
for Accepted Ph.D. Program Applicants
Fisher-Bennett Hall
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Mar2012:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk)
This will be a conversation between Jaime Hernandez, one of the authors of the legendary comic book series Love and Rockets, and Natalia Ramos Bellido, a student from the Fall 2023 ENGL/LALS class, "Love and Rockets: The Great American Comic Book (The One Series)." This event is generously co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, a Sachs Project Support Grant ("ComicsLab"), AmLit, and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. Lunch will be provided! Co-organizers: Natalia Reyes
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Mar2012:00 PM
Online
More details and submission guidelines: https://www.english.upenn.edu/undergraduate/honors
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Mar21(All day)
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Mar215:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330
Join the Gen/Sex Working Group for a discussion with Teagan Bradway about a work-in-progress. For the pre-circulated reading, please email Austin Svedjan (svedjan@sas.upenn.edu).
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Mar225:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)
Join the Mod/Con group in the graduate lounge for a discussion with Anna Shechtman on her work-in-progress “The Voice of the Internet." Please reach out to Eilis Lombard (elombard@sas.upenn.edu) for a copy of the reading.
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Mar255:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Mar2612:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135
You are warmly invited to our Spring semester "Tea with new Faculty." A tradition here at Penn English, these gatherings bring together one of our newest faculty members with English majors and minors to discuss research, teaching, and more.
We are excited to welcome Professor Sara Kazmi on Tuesday, March 26th, 12:00–1:00pm, in Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (“the faculty lounge”). This informal lunchtime conversation will be accompanied by a tasty assortment of snacks, cookies, and tea.
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Mar271:00 PM to 2:30 PM
The Black Pacific: U.S. Empire, the Colored American Magazine, and José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere in Translation
FBH Grad Lounge
Abstract: The transnational turn in American literary studies has forged new epistemologies and approaches for thinking about post-national cultural forms while centering empire and imperialism in the development of U.S. culture. My talk reviews these critical conversations and takes up the recent concept of the Black Pacific to examine how the redefinition of the U.S.
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Mar285:15 PM to 6:30 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall room 401
Reception to follow. More details TBA!
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Mar295:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)
Join the Mod/Con group in the graduate lounge for a WIP by Sam Samore. Please reach out to Eilis Lombard (elombard@sas.upenn.edu) for a copy of the reading.
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Apr15:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Apr3(All day)
Hybrid
https://span-port.yale.edu/people/nicholas-r-jones
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Apr85:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Apr115:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)
Join the Mod/Con and AmLit groups in the graduate lounge for a discussion with Jennifer Fleissner about her latest book Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem. Please reach out to Eilis Lombard (elombard@sas.upenn.edu) for a copy of the reading.
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Apr1212:00 PM to 2:00 PM
McNeil 109
The Latinx Working Group will host Lucas Iberico Lozada (USC) and Natalia Reyes (Penn English) for a workshop on their works-in-progress. Lucas will present a chapter from his book-in-progress, Columbus's Body, and Natalia will present a chapter-in-progress on Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. Light refreshments will be served.
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Apr122:00 PM to 5:00 PM
HYBRID: Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom
English Honors Thesis Symposium
Margaret Arfaa
Lyn Donnell
Janay Draughn
Emma Herndon
Sunny Xiaoyang Hua
Cagney Kelshaw
Allyson Nelson
Jean Paik
Liwa Sun
Faculty Director Prof. Dagmawi Woubshet
Refreshments will be provided!
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Apr153:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135
Please join us for a poetry reading and discussion of translation with the Franco-Egyptian poet, Safaa Fathy, and NELC graduate student, Rawad Wehbe, who has just published his Arabic-to-English translation of one of Fathy’s books.
Here is more information about this new book: https://litmuspress.org/product/where-not-to-be-born/
And here is Safaa’s Web site: http://safaafathy.org/en/
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Apr155:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Apr1610:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Apr1612:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
What kinds of stories do we tell — do we need to tell — about homelessness in the US in 2024? How can investigative journalism and social-scientific research combine forces to capture the present situation and future dimensions of homelessness? What role do the lives, experiences, and idea of unhoused populations play in the public understanding and policy implications of this social problem?
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Apr163:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (Room 135)
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Apr17(All day)
Zoom
This year’s speaker will be Kathryn Schwarz
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/kathryn-schwarz/
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Apr173:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Zoom (email natreyes@sas.upenn.edu for link and precirculated reading)
The Latinx and ResVic Working Groups will co-host Manu Chander (Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University) over Zoom for a discussion of an excerpt from his forthcoming monograph, *Browntology*, which considers the philosophical groundings of brownness in Enlightenment European thought to show how the figure of the model minority haunts foundational efforts to define the human.
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Apr183:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
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Apr192:00 PM to 5:00 PM
FBH Faculty Lounge
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Apr2212:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Apr223:30 PM to 6:30 PM
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Apr225:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Apr24(All day)
Hybrid
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Apr253:00 PM to 7:30 PM
A Conference in Honor of David Wallace
Thursday: Myerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library and Kelly Writers House Friday: Van Pelt Library, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Please join us for a two-day symposium in honor of the career of Professor David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. The symposium brings together more than thirty of Professor Wallace’s former doctoral students for a forward-looking consideration of the future of medieval literary studies, with special emphasis on the recent global turn in premodern studies and other emerging theoretical and methodological frameworks.
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Apr255:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)
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Apr253:00 PM to 7:30 PM
A Conference in Honor of David Wallace
Thursday: Myerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library and Kelly Writers House Friday: Van Pelt Library, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Please join us for a two-day symposium in honor of the career of Professor David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. The symposium brings together more than thirty of Professor Wallace’s former doctoral students for a forward-looking consideration of the future of medieval literary studies, with special emphasis on the recent global turn in premodern studies and other emerging theoretical and methodological frameworks.
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Apr295:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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May1(All day)
Penn Campus
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May112:00 PM to 1:30 PM
McNeil 473
The Latinx Working Group will host Nicolás Medina Mora, editor for Nexos and author of América del Norte, for a talk on his article, "Secondhand Borges: Ben Lerner, Roberto Bolaño, and Autofiction as Defacement" (f
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May16:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Taller Puertorriqueño, 2600 N. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133
The Latinx Working Group and Taller Puertorriqueño will host Nicol
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May21:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Judith Rodin Undergraduate English Lounge (room 223), Fisher-Bennett Hall
You're invited! Faculty, majors, and minors will gather in Fisher-Bennett Hall on May 2, 2024 for an end-of-year celebration. Winners of the annual Department of English essay prizes will be announced as we celebrate a fabulous year at Penn!
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May74:00 PM to 8:00 PM
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May1710:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Irvine Auditorium
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May20(All day)
Franklin Field
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May2012:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Judith Rodin Undergraduate English Lounge
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Second Floor
3340 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104Please join us for a special reception to toast the graduating English Majors and Minors of the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2024!
~ champagne and light refreshments to be served ~