Upcoming Events

Mar

22

(All day)

Visiting Days for Accepted Ph.D. Students

Penn's campus
Mar

22

12:00 PM

Deadline to Submit Undergraduate Honors Program Application

Online

More details and submission guidelines: https://www.english.upenn.edu/undergraduate/honors
Mar

22

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Premodern Studies: Professor Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University): “Staging Early Modern Women’s Doll Houses"

Location: Zoom

Professor Korda's lecture examines the diminutive world-making capacity of early modern doll or “baby” houses, and the intimate forms of imaginative and interactive play they afforded in the everyday lives of women.
Mar

23

5:15 PM to 6:45 PM

Arielle Saiber’s Talk

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401

More details to be announced—please stay tuned!
Mar

24

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies

Location: Slought Institute and the ICA

host website: https://slought.org/resources/infidelities
Mar

24

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Gen/Sex, Mod/Con: Arthur Wang (Penn), “Inventing Rape Ecology: Octavia E. Butler and the Sociobiology of Sexual Violence"

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330)

Join the Mod/Con group in FBH's graduate lounge for a work-in-progress by Arthur Wang. Please reach out to Jonathan Dick (jondick@sas.upenn.edu) or Eilis Lombard (elombard@sas.upenn.edu) for a copy of the readings.
Mar

25

(All day)

CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Grad Coordinator by 12pm

FBH
Mar

24

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies

Location: Slought Institute and the ICA

host website: https://slought.org/resources/infidelities
Mar

25

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

bala.fruta/bullet.fruit: A Performance and Conversation with Jesús I. Valles

Penn Live Arts Montgomery Theater

"My first bullet flew swiftly through the head of a would-be Mexican president, cut through a street block, a dance club, a Walmart, cut back through to a past never-ending, cut past and rattled in my brain until it bloomed into these words, into my living." bala.fruta./bullet.fruit. is the second solo show by Jesús I. Valles (they/them). In the end, bala.fruta./bullet.fruit. asks, "What might be the opposite of a bullet? Where might we find it?" The performance will be followed by a conversation between the actor-playwright and Jamal A.
Mar

24

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies

Location: Slought Institute and the ICA

host website: https://slought.org/resources/infidelities
Mar

27

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Tiffany Stern (Birmingham): "Clown Images in and Beyond the Early Modern Playhouse"

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

We will be welcoming Tiffany Stern (Birmingham) for a talk entitled "Clown Images in and Beyond the Early Modern Playhouse." Tiffany writes:
Mar

28

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Alumni Tea with Special Guest Dr. Jennifer Snead

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

Special guest Dr. Jennifer Snead will speak about her career path after completing a BA in English here at the University of Pennsylvania, and explain how her time at Penn has helped direct her personal and professional interests over the years.

Coffee, tea, and delicious snacks will be served!
Mar

29

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

From the Humanities to the Media Business

Annenberg 110

RICHARD LORBER
CEO, Kino-Lorber

JESSE JACOBS
C '97, WG '04
Co-Founder and Partner, The Chernin Group
Mar

29

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Premodern Studies: Jenna Nordness (PhD Candidate, English, Penn)

Zoom
Mar

30

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Professor Irving Goh (National University of Singapore), “Living on After Failure”

Room 401 FBH
Abstract
Apr

3

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Dissertation Defense: Amber Rose Johnson

FBH Faculty Lounge
Apr

3

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Christy Pottroff (Boston College): "Postal Hackers: Reading the Earliest Letterbooks of the U.S. Postmaster General (1789–1805) for the Extraordinary"

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Apr

3

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

AmLit, Latitudes: Yogita Goyal (UCLA): Genres of Anticolonialism: Rethinking Failure, Plotting Revolution

Faculty Lounge (FBH)

Sponsored by Latitudes, AmLit, and Theorizing (Comp Lit). Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (FBH 330). Please reach out to Avni Sejpal (avnims@sas.upenn.edu) with any questions.
Apr

6

(All day)

The School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 3

Experiments in Performance, Practice and Pedagogy
The Rotunda and Slought

You are invited to the SCHOOL FOR TEMPORARY LIVENESS, Vol. 3: 6–8 April, 2023 at the Rotunda and Slought in Philadelphia, PA.

Participate in situations for collective study with:

Lou Cornum, FORTUNE, Jonathan González & Marguerite Hemmings, Adelita Husni Bey, Niall Jones, Kevin Quashie, Julie Tolentino, and Simone White.

Free and open to all — anyone can be a student.

Organized by Lauren Bakst.
Apr

7

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Honors Thesis Symposium

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Apr

7

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

ResVic: A Virtual Discussion of John Ruskin with Graduate Consortium

Zoom
Apr

10

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Apr

10

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Apr

13

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Mod/Con: Guenther Leypoldt (University of Heidelberg), "Literary Prestige and the Laureate Position in Cultural Space"

Faculty Lounge

More information about this talk available here. Co-sponsored by the Comp Lit Theorizing Group.
Apr

10

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Apr

17

11:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Dissertation Defense: Dahlia Menghui Li

FBH Faculty Lounge
Apr

17

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Jessica Linker (Northeastern): "Reimagining Women's Roles in 19th-Century American Scientific Illustration"

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Apr

18

12:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Dissertation Defense: Cassidy Holahan

FBH Faculty Lounge
Apr

18

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Faculty meeting (3:30-5)

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge room 135
Apr

19

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Dissertation Defense: Alex Millen

FBH Faculty Lounge
Apr

19

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Premodern Studies: Urvashi Chakravarty (English, University of Toronto)

Zoom

Organizers: Nat Rivkin & George Perez
Apr

20

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

AmLit, Latitudes, Mod/Con: Michaela Bronstein (Stanford): On Crimes For All Humanity: Revolution and the Modern Novel

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (FBH 330). Please reach out to the coordinators for any required readings.
Apr

21

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

ResVic: A Work-in-Progress by Molly Young

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (FBH 330)
Apr

24

5:15 PM to 6:30 PM

Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn): "Who Died on April 23? Three Textual Connected Histories between Peru, Spain and London"

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Apr

26

(All day)

Last day of classes

University of Pennsylvania
Apr

27

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

End-of-Year Party for English Majors and Minors

Judith Rodin Undergraduate English Lounge (room 223), Fisher-Bennett Hall

You're invited! Faculty, majors, and minors will gather in Fisher-Bennett Hall on April 27, 2023 for an end-of-year celebration. Winners of the annual Department of English essay prizes will be announced as we celebrate a faculous year at Penn!
May

15

8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Commencement!

Fisher Bennett Hall Rooms 222/223/224
Sep

7

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Collation and Department Party

Log in with Penn Key for location details

Premodern Studies: Professor Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University): “Staging Early Modern Women’s Doll Houses"

Gen/Sex, Mod/Con: Arthur Wang (Penn), “Inventing Rape Ecology: Octavia E. Butler and the Sociobiology of Sexual Violence"

Material Texts: Tiffany Stern (Birmingham): "Clown Images in and Beyond the Early Modern Playhouse"

Premodern Studies: Jenna Nordness (PhD Candidate, English, Penn)

Material Texts: Christy Pottroff (Boston College): "Postal Hackers: Reading the Earliest Letterbooks of the U.S. Postmaster General (1789–1805) for the Extraordinary"

AmLit, Latitudes: Yogita Goyal (UCLA): Genres of Anticolonialism: Rethinking Failure, Plotting Revolution

ResVic: A Virtual Discussion of John Ruskin with Graduate Consortium

Material Texts: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Material Texts: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Mod/Con: Guenther Leypoldt (University of Heidelberg), "Literary Prestige and the Laureate Position in Cultural Space"

Material Texts: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Material Texts: Jessica Linker (Northeastern): "Reimagining Women's Roles in 19th-Century American Scientific Illustration"

Premodern Studies: Urvashi Chakravarty (English, University of Toronto)

AmLit, Latitudes, Mod/Con: Michaela Bronstein (Stanford): On Crimes For All Humanity: Revolution and the Modern Novel

ResVic: A Work-in-Progress by Molly Young

Material Texts: Roger Chartier (Penn): "Who Died on April 23? Three Textual Connected Histories between Peru, Spain and London"