Department of English

TA Workshop: Teaching Emily Dickinson Friday, November 30, 4:00pm in Department Seminar Room Featuring Professors Ange Mlinko and Marsha Bryant Sonnet Graham, MFA candidate Ashley Tisdale, PhD candidate

Join us at the Alachua County Library Headquarters Branch as we read and discuss the best picture books of 2018. We will vote for our favorites to win our Mock Caldecott Award. The real Caldecott Awards will be announced on January 28, 2019. Will our readers predict this year's winners? Will we choose the correct …

LIT 2.0 Collective will offer perspectives on teaching Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir, one of this year's common texts in LIT 2000 (Introduction to Literature). Moderated by Amrita Bandopadhyay, the roundtable features presentations by our PhD students Rachal Burton, Maxine Donnelly, Min Ji Kang, Satit Leelathawornchai, Corinne Matthews, and Vincent Wing. The Roundtable is part of …

English Graduate Organization (EGO) First Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium February 15-16, 2019 The theme is “Developing an Academic Persona.” Questions can be directed to ufl.ego@gmail.com.

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: …