Upcoming Events

Nov

11

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Material Texts: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday

"Form and Style in the Transmission of Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy to the Latin West"
Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/rosenbach2019

All lectures begin at 5:30pm

Monday, November 11: Fides Interpres
Tuesday, November 12: Sensus huius litterae est
Thursday, November 14: Intentio mea in hoc libro
Nov

12

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

GEA Meeting

Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330
Nov

12

4:00 PM to 6:30 PM

AmLit: Mark Firmani WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330)
Nov

11

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Material Texts: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday

"Form and Style in the Transmission of Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy to the Latin West"
Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/rosenbach2019

All lectures begin at 5:30pm

Monday, November 11: Fides Interpres
Tuesday, November 12: Sensus huius litterae est
Thursday, November 14: Intentio mea in hoc libro
Nov

13

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

EVERYMAN, A Morality Play

Bruce Montgomery Theater 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Please consider attending a performance of Everyman: A Morality Play, which Marcia Ferguson directs. Special bonus: if you can make the (free!) Wednesday evening performance you’ll be able to catch Emily Steiner conducting a talk-back!

The Theatre Arts Program at UPenn presents: EVERYMAN, A Morality Play, in the Bruce Montgomery Theatre

Adapted by Carol Ann Duffy
Directed by Dr. Marcia Ferguson

Buy Tickets
Nov

11

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Material Texts: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday

"Form and Style in the Transmission of Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy to the Latin West"
Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/rosenbach2019

All lectures begin at 5:30pm

Monday, November 11: Fides Interpres
Tuesday, November 12: Sensus huius litterae est
Thursday, November 14: Intentio mea in hoc libro
Nov

13

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

EVERYMAN, A Morality Play

Bruce Montgomery Theater 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Please consider attending a performance of Everyman: A Morality Play, which Marcia Ferguson directs. Special bonus: if you can make the (free!) Wednesday evening performance you’ll be able to catch Emily Steiner conducting a talk-back!

The Theatre Arts Program at UPenn presents: EVERYMAN, A Morality Play, in the Bruce Montgomery Theatre

Adapted by Carol Ann Duffy
Directed by Dr. Marcia Ferguson

Buy Tickets
Nov

13

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

EVERYMAN, A Morality Play

Bruce Montgomery Theater 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Please consider attending a performance of Everyman: A Morality Play, which Marcia Ferguson directs. Special bonus: if you can make the (free!) Wednesday evening performance you’ll be able to catch Emily Steiner conducting a talk-back!

The Theatre Arts Program at UPenn presents: EVERYMAN, A Morality Play, in the Bruce Montgomery Theatre

Adapted by Carol Ann Duffy
Directed by Dr. Marcia Ferguson

Buy Tickets
Nov

13

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

EVERYMAN, A Morality Play

Bruce Montgomery Theater 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Please consider attending a performance of Everyman: A Morality Play, which Marcia Ferguson directs. Special bonus: if you can make the (free!) Wednesday evening performance you’ll be able to catch Emily Steiner conducting a talk-back!

The Theatre Arts Program at UPenn presents: EVERYMAN, A Morality Play, in the Bruce Montgomery Theatre

Adapted by Carol Ann Duffy
Directed by Dr. Marcia Ferguson

Buy Tickets
Nov

18

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Material Texts: Nancy Farriss (Penn): "Christianity, Alphabetic Writing, and Indigenous Intellectuals in 16th- and 17th-century Mexico"

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Nov

18

6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Paul Hendrickson In Conversation with Witold Rybczynski

Penn Book Center
130 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Join us for a discussion with Paul Hendrickson, the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway’s Boat and Sons of Mississippi, whose newest book about Frank Lloyd Wright is an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.
Nov

20

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Nov

20

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Emily Thornbury (Yale University) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Engliah Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Nov

21

12:00 PM to 1:15 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Reading Discussion: Peter Singer – “All Animals Are Equal” (1974), Matthew Calarco – “Identity, Difference, Indistinction” (2011), and Lori Gruen – “Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience” (2016)

Williams Hall, Room 616
Nov

21

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Mods: Talk by Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Yale)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Student Lounge, Room 330

Please note change in time.
Nov

25

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Material Texts: Philip Mogen (Penn): "Recycling and Remaking Tudor and Early Stuart tracts during the British Civil Wars"

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Dec

2

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Material Texts: Johanna Drucker (UCLA): "Alphabet Historiography: Bibliography and Modes of Knowledge Transmission"

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Dec

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Alicia Meyer Work in Progress Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Dec

5

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Mods: Talk by Professor Benjamin Baer (Princeton University)

Fisher Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135

Please join the Mods graduate group for a talk by and discussion with Professor Benjamin Baer from Princeton University. Baer will be discussing his new book Indigenous Vanguards.

You can read more about Baer here, and more about his book here.
Dec

9

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Material Texts: Kathryn James (Yale): "Imperfect: Bibliography, Natural History, and the Problem of Incomplete Knowledge"

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Dec

12

12:00 PM to 1:15 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Reading Discussion: Dominic Boyer – Energopolitics (2019) and Cymene Howe – Ecologics (2019)

Williams Hall, Room 616
Jan

21

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Hold for Early Modern Job Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401
Jan

23

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Hold for Early Modern Job Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401
Jan

24

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

GEA Pre-Doctoral Funding Panel & Workshop

Fisher-Bennett Hall 330

This workshop will provide an overview to what funding resources are available to graduate students in the English Department, including intra-departmental funds, university grants, and national and international awards. A panel of graduate students will also discuss how they located funding opportunities and obtained their awards. Please contact Jacob (jamyers@sas.upenn.edu) with any questions.
Jan

28

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Hold for Early Modern Job Talk

Fisher Bennett Hall, Room 401
Jan

30

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Hold for Early Modern Job Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
Feb

1

(All day)

Graduate SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

FBH

SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

(Students who expect to complete their dissertation in 2019-20 are ineligible)
Feb

1

(All day)

Critical Writing Graduate Teaching Fellowships Applications Due to Val Ross

FBH
Feb

6

5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Mods: talk by Emma Heaney on her recent book "The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory"

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Please join us for a talk by Emma Heaney on her recent book, The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory.
Feb

7

(All day)

King’s College Fellowship Applications Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Feb

7

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Deadline

FBH
Feb

7

10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Graduate Admissions Final Meeting

Graduate Admissions Committee
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

12

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

50-Book and Field Exam Discussion

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm)

(First Years)

Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm)

(Second Years)
Feb

13

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

AmLit, Mods: Dr. Lisi Schoenbach (University of Tennessee)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)
Feb

15

(All day)

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Graduate Division

FBH
Feb

19

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

1

(All day)

Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Mar

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) Work in Progress Lecture

English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

13

(All day)

50-Book Exam Committee Chair must be selected; notify Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Mar

17

(All day)

Graduate Recruitment Days

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

25

(All day)

CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH
Mar

27

(All day)

Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies

Slought Institute
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Sponsored by the English Department.
Apr

1

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Simone Chess (Wayne State University) Work in Progress Lecture

English Graduate Longe, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

8

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Student Town Hall - CANCELED

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Town Hall to coordinate Department Speaker Series and Graduate Group Coordinators for 2019-20.
Apr

12

(All day)

50-Book Exam Lists Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

12

(All day)

Graduate Spring Language Exams

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

19

(All day)

Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

20

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

AmLit: Prof. Monica Huerta (Princeton)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330)

Coordinated by Jane Robbins Mize and Ethan Plaue.
Apr

24

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)
Apr

26

(All day)

Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Aug

24

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Graduate 50 Book Exams and Welcome Back

Faculty Offices
Aug

24

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Orientation Luncheon

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Aug

24

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Graduate 50-Book Exam Party

Graduate Lounge
Sep

4

(All day)

Graduate 50 Book Exams Reports due to Ann Marie Pitts

FBH
Sep

10

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Collation and Department Party

Log in with Penn Key for location details
Oct

9

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up Deadline

FBH

WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Deadline
Oct

16

(All day)

Field Exams Scheduled

Third Years and Faculty Committees
FBH
Dates for written and oral portions of Field Exams should be scheduled. Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10, 2018). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place with 2 weeks of the written exam no later than Thursday, December 20, 2018.
Oct

19

(All day)

Graduate Fall Language Exam

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Nov

8

(All day)

Graduate Field Exams (Written)

Third Years and Faculty Committees
FBH
Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10, 2018). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place within 2 weeks of the written exam no later than Thursday, December 20, 2018.

Material Texts: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday

AmLit: Mark Firmani WIP

Material Texts: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday

Material Texts: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday

Material Texts: Nancy Farriss (Penn): "Christianity, Alphabetic Writing, and Indigenous Intellectuals in 16th- and 17th-century Mexico"

Med/Ren: Emily Thornbury (Yale University) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Reading Discussion: Peter Singer – “All Animals Are Equal” (1974), Matthew Calarco – “Identity, Difference, Indistinction” (2011), and Lori Gruen – “Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience” (2016)

Mods: Talk by Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Yale)

Material Texts: Philip Mogen (Penn): "Recycling and Remaking Tudor and Early Stuart tracts during the British Civil Wars"

Material Texts: Johanna Drucker (UCLA): "Alphabet Historiography: Bibliography and Modes of Knowledge Transmission"

Med/Ren: Alicia Meyer Work in Progress Lecture

Mods: Talk by Professor Benjamin Baer (Princeton University)

Material Texts: Kathryn James (Yale): "Imperfect: Bibliography, Natural History, and the Problem of Incomplete Knowledge"

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Reading Discussion: Dominic Boyer – Energopolitics (2019) and Cymene Howe – Ecologics (2019)

Mods: talk by Emma Heaney on her recent book "The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory"

AmLit, Mods: Dr. Lisi Schoenbach (University of Tennessee)

Med/Ren: Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study) Medieval/Renaissance Lecture

Med/Ren: Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) Work in Progress Lecture

Med/Ren: Simone Chess (Wayne State University) Work in Progress Lecture

AmLit: Prof. Monica Huerta (Princeton)