EVENTS: SPRING 2008

Spring celebration & farewell to alicia erian

Thursday, May 8th,5:00-7:00, English Common Room (FND 106) and Founders Terrace: It's finally spring! Come celebrate with your friends in the English Department! And help us bid a fond farewell to Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Alicia Erian as she heads off to conquer bigger and better territories.

davis museum literary series: Frank Bidart

Thursday, April 17th, 4:30 pm,Collins Cinema: Bollingen Prize-winner and English professor Frank Bidart will read from from his new book of poems, Watching the Spring Festival, as part of the Davis Museum Literary Series. Sponsored by the Department of English in conjunction with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Reception and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.

professor susan meyer reads from her children's novel

Tuesday, March 11th, 12:30 p.m., Newhouse Center for the Humanities: Professor Susan Meyer will read from her work-in-progress, Black Radishes, a children's novel set in Nazi-occupied France. Prof. Meyer teaches ENG 205 "Writing for Children." Please join us.

Book party for Associate professor Lisa Rodensky

Friday, March 14th, at 4:15 p.m., English Department Common Room (Founders 106): Join us to celebrate publication of Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu, edited by Associate Professor Lisa Rodensky. All are welcome.

DANA Gioia, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Tuesday, February 26th, 8:00 p.m. in Collins Cinema: The English Department and the Newhouse Center for the Humanities are pleased to present, "Is Reading at Risk?" a lecture by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Dana Gioia will discuss the findings of the NEA's report, "To Read or Not to Read," and read from his poetry. All are welcome.

TOWELHEAD: FILM Screening with director Allan Ball and writer alicia erian

Thursday, February 21st, 7:00 p.m., Collins Cinema: Alan Ball's adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel, Towelhead, will screen at Collins Cinema. A reception will be held before the film from 5:30-6:45 p.m. A Q&A will follow. Alan Ball is the creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under, and the Academy Award winning screenwriter of American Beauty. Alicia TeErian is the Newhouse Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, a three-year appointment. Her publications include The Brutal Language of Love, a collection of stories published in 2001 and the novel, Towelhead, that was published in the spring of 2005.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM: Prof. Kathryn Lynch

Friday, February 8th, 4:15 to 6:00 p.m., English Department Common Room (Founders 106): The English Department is proud to present its second colloquium of the year. Professor Kathryn Lynch will discuss her work, "Reading Food in the Canterbury Tales." Please email Yoon S. Lee or Lindy Williamson for a precirculated paper. All are welcome.

EVENTS: FALL 2007

Book Party for Professor margaret cezair-thompson

Thursday, December 13th, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Founders 106: Come and celebrate the publication of The Pirate's Daughter at the English Department's Caribbean-themed party.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM: Prof. Larry Rosenwald

Monday, December 3rd, 4:30 p.m., Founders 106: The English Department is pleased to present Prof. Larry Rosenwald to discuss: " Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature. " All are welcome.

John ASHBERY KICKS OFF The davis museum literary series

Thursday, November 29th, 5:00 pm,Collins Cinema: Celebrated writer John Ashbery, author of more than twenty books and recipient of nearly every major award for poetry, will read from from his work during the inaugural event of the Davis Museum Literary Series. Sponsored by the Department of English in conjunction with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center and the Poetry Society of America. Free and open to the public.

COLIN CHANNER, author of The girl with the golden shoes

Thursday, November 26th, 6:00 pm,Collins Cinema: Please join us for an evening of Caribbean literary culture. Jamaican author Colin Channer has been called a "'reggae writer" and even the Bob Marley of Jamaican literature," according to The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Writing Program. Free and open to the public.

events: spring 2007

Book Party for Professors "Cappy" Lynch and Dan Chiasson
Tuesday, April 10th, 4:15 pm, Founders 106: Come and celebrate the publication of Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Katherine Lynch and One Kind of Everything by Dan Chiasson.

Elizabeth Turner Jordan Lecturer in the Humanities: Kirin Desai
Thursday, February 15th, 5:30 pm, Collins Cinema: Kiran Desai will be reading from her novel The Inheritance of Loss, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Award 2007. Free and open to the public.

“The Globalization of Literature: The Making of an Illusion”
Wednesday, April 18th, 5:00 pm, Collins Cinema: A lecture by novelist and journalist Pankaj Mishra, author of Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond; An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World; and The Romantics: A Novel. Free and open to the public.

Beyond the Postcolonial
Wednesday, April 18th, 12:30 pm - 2pm, Slater International House: An open conversation with Kiran Desai and Pankaj Mishra; buffet lunch provided. Open to the Wellesley College community.