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November 11, 2019 (Monday)
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" 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM 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...

November 12, 2019 (Tuesday)
GEA Meeting 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330
AmLit: Mark Firmani WIP 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330)
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" 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM 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...

November 14, 2019 (Thursday)
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" 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM 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...

November 18, 2019 (Monday)
Material Texts: Nancy Farriss (Penn): "Christianity, Alphabetic Writing, and Indigenous Intellectuals in 16th- and 17th-century Mexico" 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

November 20, 2019 (Wednesday)
fifthyears Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years Faculty and Students 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

November 21, 2019 (Thursday)
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) 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Williams Hall, Room 616
Mods: Talk by Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Yale) 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Student Lounge, Room 330 Please note change in time.

November 25, 2019 (Monday)
Material Texts: Philip Mogen (Penn): "Recycling and Remaking Tudor and Early Stuart tracts during the British Civil Wars" 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

December 2, 2019 (Monday)
Material Texts: Johanna Drucker (UCLA): "Alphabet Historiography: Bibliography and Modes of Knowledge Transmission" 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

December 5, 2019 (Thursday)
Mods: Talk by Professor Benjamin Baer (Princeton University) 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM 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...

December 9, 2019 (Monday)
Material Texts: Kathryn James (Yale): "Imperfect: Bibliography, Natural History, and the Problem of Incomplete Knowledge" 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

December 12, 2019 (Thursday)
Anthropocene and Animal Studies: Reading Discussion: Dominic Boyer – Energopolitics (2019) and Cymene Howe – Ecologics (2019) 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Williams Hall, Room 616

January 21, 2020 (Tuesday)
Hold for Early Modern Job Talk 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401

January 23, 2020 (Thursday)
Hold for Early Modern Job Talk 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401

January 24, 2020 (Friday)
GEA Pre-Doctoral Funding Panel & Workshop 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM 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...

January 28, 2020 (Tuesday)
Hold for Early Modern Job Talk 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher Bennett Hall, Room 401

January 30, 2020 (Thursday)
Hold for Early Modern Job Talk 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401

February 1, 2020 (Saturday)
fifthyears Graduate SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (All day) FBH SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (Students who expect to complete their dissertation in 2019-20 are ineligible)
fifthyears, sixthyears Critical Writing Graduate Teaching Fellowships Applications Due to Val Ross (All day) FBH

February 6, 2020 (Thursday)
Mods: talk by Emma Heaney on her recent book "The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory" 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM 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...

February 7, 2020 (Friday)
fourthyears, fifthyears King’s College Fellowship Applications Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH
fifthyears WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Deadline (All day) FBH
Graduate Admissions Final Meeting Graduate Admissions Committee 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

February 12, 2020 (Wednesday)
firstyears, secondyears 50-Book and Field Exam Discussion 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge 50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm) (First Years) Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm) (Second Years)

February 13, 2020 (Thursday)
AmLit, Mods: Dr. Lisi Schoenbach (University of Tennessee) 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)

February 15, 2020 (Saturday)
SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Graduate Division (All day) FBH

March 1, 2020 (Sunday)
fourthyears Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

March 13, 2020 (Friday)
firstyears 50-Book Exam Committee Chair must be selected; notify Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

March 17, 2020 (Tuesday) to March 19, 2020 (Thursday)
Graduate Recruitment Days Faculty and Students (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

March 25, 2020 (Wednesday)
abd CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

April 8, 2020 (Wednesday)
Graduate Student Town Hall - CANCELED 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge Town Hall to coordinate Department Speaker Series and Graduate Group Coordinators for 2019-20.

April 12, 2020 (Sunday)
firstyears 50-Book Exam Lists Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall
Graduate Spring Language Exams (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 19, 2020 (Sunday)
thirdyears Dissertation Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

April 20, 2020 (Monday)
AmLit: Prof. Monica Huerta (Princeton) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330) Coordinated by Jane Robbins Mize and Ethan Plaue.

April 24, 2020 (Friday)
fifthyears Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

April 26, 2020 (Sunday)
secondyears Field Exam Proposals Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

August 24, 2020 (Monday)
secondyears Graduate 50 Book Exams and Welcome Back 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Faculty Offices
firstyears Graduate Orientation Luncheon 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)
Graduate 50-Book Exam Party 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Graduate Lounge

September 4, 2020 (Friday)
Graduate 50 Book Exams Reports due to Ann Marie Pitts (All day) FBH

September 10, 2020 (Thursday)
Collation and Department Party 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Log in with Penn Key for location details

October 9, 2020 (Friday)
fifthyears WIPs Sign-up Deadline (All day) FBH WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Deadline

October 16, 2020 (Friday)
thirdyears Field Exams Scheduled Third Years and Faculty Committees (All day) 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...

October 19, 2020 (Monday)
Graduate Fall Language Exam (All day) Fisher-Bennett Hall

November 8, 2020 (Sunday)
thirdyears Graduate Field Exams (Written) Third Years and Faculty Committees (All day) 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...

November 13, 2020 (Friday)
fourthyears, fifthyears Kislak Fellowship Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (All day) FBH

November 25, 2020 (Wednesday)
fifthyears Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years Faculty and Students 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

February 1, 2021 (Monday)
fifthyears Graduate SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (All day) FBH SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Ann Marie Pitts by 12pm (Students who expect to complete their dissertation in 2019-20 are ineligible)
fifthyears, sixthyears Critical Writing Graduate Teaching Fellowships Applications Due to Val Ross (All day) FBH

February 10, 2021 (Wednesday)
firstyears, secondyears 50-Book and Field Exam Discussion 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge 50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm) (First Years) Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm) (Second Years)