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UAB Hosts Winter Reading Project 2025: ERASURE by Percival Everett

On January 21, 2025, the English Undergraduate Advisory Board (UAB) hosted the annual Winter Reading Project in the Harrison College House Rooftop Lounge.

This year's book selection was Percival Everett’s Erasure. Over 200 students picked up free copies of the novel in December to read over winter break. The Department of English, along with co-sponsors including the Department of Cinema & Media Studies and the Office of New Student Orientation & Academic Initiatives (NSOAI), presented the discussion panel this week.

The esteemed panel featured Penn English Ph.D. Student Caleb Lewis, Cinema and Media Studies Senior Lecturer Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve, and Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies Herman Beavers (pictured from left to right). It was moderated by Donald T. Regan Professor of English Nancy Bentley, Undergraduate Chair. Introductions and Q&A were by Penn English UAB Co-Chairs Emma Halper, Jenny Fu, and Max Brody.