Department of English

Digital Assembly Symposium 2019 UF English Digital Assembly

Geared toward graduate students, this teaching workshop will feature Professor Debra Walker King and PhD students Srimayee Basu and Milt Moise. Come and hear strategies for bringing Toni Morrison's novels Sula and Beloved into your classes.

Plotting the Garden: Politics and Narrative in the Literature and Culture of the Garden conference organized by Dr. Judith W. Page (English) and Dr. Victoria Pagan (Classics)

Marxist Reading Group (MRG) Conference 2019

This brief talk will revisit the creation of the postcolonial studies @ Emory web site in 1996 as an example of early postcolonial digital praxis, its evolution in today's information rich digital environment,  and speculations about the future of postcolonial digital humanities. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/​ (https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/about-this-site/) Refreshments will be served. This event is open to the public and is …

Deepika Bahri, Professor in the English Department at Emory University, will present a lecture entitled “Postcolonial Biology” related to her recent book, Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire (U of Minnesota Press, 2017). This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Department of English and the George A. Smathers Libraries. Abstract: …

Join the Center for Children's Literature and Culture for a screening of Arwen Curry's acclaimed documentary, "Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin." The film is "a journey through the writer’s career and her worlds, both real and fantastic. Viewers will join the writer on an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her own as …

Tea Literary Magazine, UF's historic and only undergraduate literary and arts publication, is having its 21st release party this April 5th, 2019. There will be art on display, poetry readings, speakers, and of course, refreshments. You'll be able to pick up a copy of Tea Volume 21 and meet the undergraduate artists and writers published …

The Graduate Comics Organization at the University of Florida invites applicants from all stages of their careers, including independent scholars and imagetext creators, to submit proposals to their 16th annual conference, “ImageText in Motion: Animation and Comics.” The conference will be held from Friday, April 12 through Sunday, April 14, 2019. Animation and comics are …

Graduate students in the English Department, directed by Sidney Homan, offer an evening of the great scenes in Shakespeare--Kate and Petruchio at their first meeting, the Pyramus and Thisbe playlet from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Iago's seduction of Othello, Beatrice and Benedick from Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet and his mother. Plus, two scenes from …

Join Mezzo soprano Jacquelyn Pileckas for an informal and interactive workshop on vocal projection for the classroom. Ms. Pileckas is a second-year master’s student at the University of Florida pursuing a degree in Vocal Performance. In 2017, she graduated from Christopher Newport University with B.M. in Vocal Performance. With Opera CNU, Ms. Pileckas performed Laetitia …

R. Allen Shoaf, local Gainesville author and Alumni Professor Emeritus of English at UF, presents his latest book of poetry, Language to Live In. Language to Live In offers readers an opportunity to reflect on the current crisis of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences. Drawing from work in quantum physics, biochemistry, psychoanalysis, …