Upcoming Events

Nov

13

11:30 AM to 12:45 PM

Villanova University: Kathryn Watterson, "I Hear My People Singing"

Villanova University, Tolentine Hall, room 215

Author Kathryn Watterson will be visiting Villanova University to talk about her new book, I Hear My People Singing. I Hear My People Singing is an original and fascinating work of vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African-American residents. This work sheds light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy League towns.
Nov

13

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge, room 135
Nov

14

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Book Launch: Charles Bernstein's "Near/Miss" at Penn Book Center

Penn Book Center, 130 S. 34th Street

Penn Book Center is hosting the book launch for Charles Bernstein's new book, Near/Miss. Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein, the Donald T.
Nov

14

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

KWH: Weike Wang, Cheryl J. Family Fiction Reading

With student opener Daniel Finkel (C’18)
Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

WEIKE WANG is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. Her first novel, Chemistry, received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis Award, and a Whiting Award. A "5 Under 35" honoree of the National Book Foundation, Weike is the Craven Writer in Residence in the Penn Creative Writing Program.
Nov

14

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

KWH: The Dwight Project - Poetics of the AIDS Crisis

Creative Ventures Capital project with Imani Davis
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe

How do we remember those who do not live to tell their own stories? Imani Davis (C'20) blends poetry and virtual reality to find an answer. In this cross between a reading and an immersive VR experience, Imani uncovers the history of their late uncle Dwight, who passed from complications due to AIDS during the height of the crisis in NYC. Google Cardboards provided.
Nov

15

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

Van Pelt Library, room 623
Nov

15

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Jennifer Scappettone, lunch

Wolf Humanities Center, Williams Hall, room 623
Nov

15

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Trans Literacy Project: Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary

Penn LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-literacy-project-teaching-beyond-the-gender-binary-tickets-49441743586

PANELISTS
Nov

15

6:15 PM to 7:30 PM

Res-Vic: Kathryn Temple (Georgetown), "What's Love Got to Do With It? Desire, Disgust and Feeling Just."

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Nov

19

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Samantha Sommers (Ohio State), “Reading in Books”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Nov

26

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Graduate Revision Workshop: Martine Tchitchihe

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330
Nov

26

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Gary Dyer (Cleveland State): “John Hunt's Lord Byron"

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Nov

27

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Res-Vic: Zach Fruit, "In Common: Land Enclosure and the Idea of the Rise of the Novel" WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Nov

28

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Nov

29

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

Van Pelt Library, room 623
Nov

29

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Mods: Steven Lee, "Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto"

Author of The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Co-hosted by Mods, Asian American Studies, and Russian and East European Studies.
Dec

3

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Mitch Fraas (Penn), “Boilerplate: Documentation, Paperwork, and the Persistence of Form across the Early Modern and Modern Worlds”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Dec

4

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Introductory Meeting for Penn English Program in London Fall 2019

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Calling all English majors and minors to study abroad in London at King's College Fall 2019! Join us for an introductory meeting and afternoon tea.

To learn more, contact Loretta M. Williams, Undergraduate Coordinator for the English Department, at loretta@english.upenn.edu or visit www.english.upenn.edu/undergraduate/london-program/.
Dec

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Gen/Sex: Kyla Tompkins, "'Everthing 'Cept Eat Us'" from Racial Indigestion

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)

Readings will be circulated prior to event.
Dec

4

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge, room 135
Dec

5

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Majors and Minors Tea with Jennifer Egan

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Dec

5

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Eric Schmaltz, poetry reading combined with a discussion of Surfaces

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, room 202
Dec

7

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Graduate Student Informal Pre-Mock Interview Session

Please login with your PennKey to view location and details.
Dec

10

5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Material Texts: Arthur Kiron (Penn), “Hidden in Plain Sight: Christian Readers of Rabbinic Literature in the Colonial Americas”

Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

All are welcome! Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.

FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”

Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”

- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
Dec

11

4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Graduate Student Mock Interviews

Please login with your PennKey to view location.
Dec

13

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

Van Pelt Library, room 623
Dec

14

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)

Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room

Contact e-mail: pennthropocene@gmail.com
Jan

17

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

17

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Jan

22

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

22

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Jan

22

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Winter Reading Project featuring Jennifer Egan

Harrison College House Sky Lounge
Jan

23

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Anna Lyman’s WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Jan

24

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

24

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Jan

29

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

30

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Davis Knittle, WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Jan

31

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Job Candidate Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Jan

31

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Job Candidate Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
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

4

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Graduate Revision Workshop: Devin William Daniels

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330
Feb

8

(All day)

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

FBH
Feb

8

(All day)

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

FBH
Feb

8

10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Graduate Admissions Final Meeting

Graduate Admissions Committee
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

11

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Keegan Finberg, WIP

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Feb

11

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow John Keene

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Reading: Monday, February 11 at 6:30PM

Interview/conversation with brunch: Tuesday, February 12 at 10:00 AM
Feb

11

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow John Keene

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Reading: Monday, February 11 at 6:30PM

Interview/conversation with brunch: Tuesday, February 12 at 10:00 AM
Feb

12

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

13

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

50-Book 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

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Kellie Robertson

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)
Feb

15

(All day)

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

FBH
Feb

21

5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Latitudes, Mods, Res-Vic: Nasser Mufti

Author of Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Graduate Lounge)
Feb

22

(All day)

M@P: 11th Annual Medievalists @ Penn Conference

TBD
Feb

27

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Faculty Colloquium

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

1

(All day)

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

FBH
Mar

12

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Graduate Revision Workshop: Alvin L.J. Kim

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330
Mar

12

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

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

13

(All day)

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

FBH
Mar

13

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Sarah Novacich

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Mar

19

(All day)

Graduate Recruitment Visit

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar

20

(All day)

Charles Burnett visit

TBD
Mar

22

(All day)

Fontaine Dinner

TBD

Time TBD
Mar

25

(All day)

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

FBH
Mar

25

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Reading: Monday, March 25 at 6:30PM

Interview/conversation with brunch: Tuesday, March 26 at 10:00 AM
Mar

25

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Reading: Monday, March 25 at 6:30PM

Interview/conversation with brunch: Tuesday, March 26 at 10:00 AM
Apr

2

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Anthropocene and Animal Studies, Poetry & Poetics: Graduate Student Lunch with Brian Teare and Allison Cobb

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, dining room

E-mail Knar (knarge@sas.upenn.edu) or Aylin (malcolma@sas.upenn.edu) for more information.
Apr

3

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Student Town Hall

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

3

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Med/Ren: Erika Lin

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330 (Grad Lounge)
Apr

5

(All day)

Gen/Sex: Conference - Queer Urgencies

TBD
Apr

8

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Graduate Revision Workshop: Martine Tchitchihe

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330
Apr

9

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)
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

12

9:00 AM to 9:00 PM

Tim Corrigan Retirement Symposium and Reception

Kislak Center, 6th Floor, Van Pelt Library
Apr

19

(All day)

Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

22

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Rosanne Cash

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Reading: Monday, April 22 at 6:30PM

Interview/conversation with brunch: Tuesday, April 23 at 10:00 AM
Apr

22

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

KWH: Reading & Interview/Conversation with 2019 Writers House Fellow Rosanne Cash

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Reading: Monday, April 22 at 6:30PM

Interview/conversation with brunch: Tuesday, April 23 at 10:00 AM
Apr

24

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Apr

26

(All day)

Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

29

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Graduate Revision Workshop: TBA

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 330
May

1

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

End of Year Cocktail Party

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May

20

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Commencement Reception

Fisher-Bennett Hall, 2nd floor reception area
Aug

27

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Graduate 50 Book Exams and Welcome Back

Faculty Offices
Aug

27

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Graduate Orientation Luncheon

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Aug

27

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

13

7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Collation and Department Party

Log in with Penn Key for location details
Oct

12

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up Deadline

FBH

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

19

(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.
Nov

9

(All day)

Kislak Fellowship Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm

FBH

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

Poetry & Poetics: Jennifer Scappettone, lunch

Res-Vic: Kathryn Temple (Georgetown), "What's Love Got to Do With It? Desire, Disgust and Feeling Just."

Material Texts: Samantha Sommers (Ohio State), “Reading in Books”

Graduate Revision Workshop: Martine Tchitchihe

Material Texts: Gary Dyer (Cleveland State): “John Hunt's Lord Byron"

Res-Vic: Zach Fruit, "In Common: Land Enclosure and the Idea of the Rise of the Novel" WIP

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

Mods: Steven Lee, "Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto"

Material Texts: Mitch Fraas (Penn), “Boilerplate: Documentation, Paperwork, and the Persistence of Form across the Early Modern and Modern Worlds”

Gen/Sex: Kyla Tompkins, "'Everthing 'Cept Eat Us'" from Racial Indigestion

Poetry & Poetics: Eric Schmaltz, poetry reading combined with a discussion of Surfaces

Material Texts: Arthur Kiron (Penn), “Hidden in Plain Sight: Christian Readers of Rabbinic Literature in the Colonial Americas”

Paleography: Working Group Meeting

Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Discussion of Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)

Med/Ren: Anna Lyman’s WIP

Poetry & Poetics: Davis Knittle, WIP

Graduate Revision Workshop: Devin William Daniels

Poetry & Poetics: Keegan Finberg, WIP

Med/Ren: Kellie Robertson

Latitudes, Mods, Res-Vic: Nasser Mufti

M@P: 11th Annual Medievalists @ Penn Conference

Graduate Revision Workshop: Alvin L.J. Kim

Med/Ren: Sarah Novacich

Anthropocene and Animal Studies, Poetry & Poetics: Graduate Student Lunch with Brian Teare and Allison Cobb

Med/Ren: Erika Lin

Gen/Sex: Conference - Queer Urgencies

Graduate Revision Workshop: Martine Tchitchihe

Graduate Revision Workshop: TBA