English Department Events
Spring 2010
January 2010 | February 2010 | March 2010 | April 2010
January 2010
Friday, January 22
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
7:00pm
The Emerging Writers Reading Series presents:
C. K. Williams, Guest Author
Wednesday, January 27
19 University Place, Room 222
8:30pm
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Thursday, January 28
Location TBA
5:30pm
The Colloquium for Early Literatures and Cultures in English presents:
CELCE Spring Welcome Reception and Happy Hour
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
Fiction Reading:
7:00pm
Lydia Davis
Friday, January 29
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
The New Salon: Writers in Conversation presents:
Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Darin Strauss
February 2010
Thursday, February 4
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Early Literatures and Cultures in English presents:
"Paris is Worth a Massacre: Marlowe and the Death of Ramus"
John Guillory (NYU)
(pre-circulated paper; copies available in the CELCE mailbox in the English department)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Poetry Reading:
Dan Chiasson
Friday, February 5
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
7:00pm
The Emerging Writers Reading Series presents:
Myla Goldberg, Guest Author
Saturday, February 6
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Washington Square Launch Party
Edward Hirsch, Glenn Kinen, C. K. Williams, and others
Thursday, February 11
SCA Department, 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
6:00pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
"Localizing the Queer: Place and Possibility in the Recent Caribbean Novel"
Alison Donnell (University of Reading, UK)
Co-sponsored by Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Fiction Reading:
A.M. Homes and Jeanette Winterson
Friday, February 12
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Poetry & Prose Reading:
Kazim Ali, Tao Lin, and Maaza Mengiste
Wednesday, February 17
19 University Place, Room 222
8:30pm
The MA Forum presents:
Evening Papers
Thursday, February 18
13 University Place, The Great Room
6:00pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
"Representation and Rapport: Caribbean Women's Writing and the Lives of Others"
Alison Donnell (University of Reading, UK)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Poets in Conversation presents:
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Friday, February 19
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Poetry Reading:
Joel Brouwer, Rebecca Wolff, and Rachel Zucker
Thursday, February 25
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Early Literatures and Cultures in English presents:
"The Poetics of Praise"
Cary Howie (Cornell)
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
7:00pm
CANCELLED
Nonfiction Reading:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Friday, February 26
19 University Place, Great Room
3:00pm
The Modern Colloquium presents:
"Supermarket Sociology"
David Alworth (Chicago)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Poetry Reading:
Maureen N. McLane, Robert Polito, and Kevin Prufer
http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/8545
13 University Place, The Great Room
6:00pm
The Postcolonial Colloquium presents:
"Comparing Alienation in Chinua Achebe, Assia Djebar, and Tayeb Salih"
Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
March 2010
Wednesday, March 3
4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor
4:30pm-7:30pm
The Memory and Memorialization project, NYU/CNRS presents:
"The Politics of War Memory in Asia: 1945-2010"
Carol Gluck (Columbia)
Commentators: David Blight (Yale), Brigitte Sion (NYU), Henry Rousso (CNRS)
Thursday, March 4 -
Saturday, March 6
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 715 Broadway
9:00am - 9:00pm
Literary Conference: Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism
A Conference in Honor of John N. Serio
Hosted by NYU’s Gallatin School; co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and NYU's English Department, Comparative Literature Department, and Humanities Initiative
http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/news/2009/11/stevens.html
Thursday, March 4
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Poetry Reading:
Sharon Olds and Matthew Dickman
Friday, March 5
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
7:00pm
The Emerging Writers Reading Series presents:
Patricia Smith, Guest Author
Thursday, March 11
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Poetry Reading:
Edward Hirsch
Friday, March 12
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Creative Writing Program Alumni Reading:
Ishion Hutchinson, John Murillo, January Gill O’Neil, and Sung J. Woo
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Early Literatures and Cultures in English presents:
"The Untimely Mammet of Verona"
Gil Harris (GWU)
Tuesday, March 23
19 University Place, Room 222
6:00pm
The 18th-Century Colloquium presents:
Paula McDowell (NYU)
Wednesday, March 24
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Lapham’s Quarterly: A Panel on Creativity presents:
Vince di Mura, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Joan Snyder
Moderated by Lewis Lapham
Co-sponsored by Lapham’s Quarterly
Thursday, March 25
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Fiction Reading:
Rawi Hage
Friday, March 26
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Poetry Reading:
April Bernard and Gardner McFall
Wednesday, March 31
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Poets in Conversation presents:
Elizabeth Alexander in conversation with Alice Quinn
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
April 2010
Thursday, April 1
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The Paris Review Fiction Salon presents:
André Aciman and Kenneth Calhoun
Friday, April 2
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
5:00pm
Poetry Reading:
David Lehman
19 University Place, The Great Room
The NYU Graduate English Organization presents:
Conference on Literature and the Mass-Produced Image
http://nyugeoconference.wordpress.com/
Thursday, April 8
19 University Place, Room 224
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Early Literatures and Cultures in English presents:
"Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in The Cloud of Unknowing"
Eleanor Johnson (Columbia)
Wednesday, April 14
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Poetry Reading and Discussion: The Asian American Avant-Garde
John Yau and Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Introduced by Ken Chen, Executive Director, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Co-sponsored by The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Thursday, April 15
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation presents:
Alexander Chee in conversation with Darin Strauss
Friday, April 16
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
Cave Canem Poetry Reading:
R. Dwayne Betts, Raina Leon, and January Gill O’Neil
Co-sponsored by Cave Canem
Monday, April 19
19 University Place, Room 222
6:00pm
The 18th-Century Colloquium presents:
Sophie Gee (Princeton)
Thursday, April 22
19 University Place, Room 224
6:30pm
The Colloquium for Early Literatures and Cultures in English presents:
"Keeping Things Still in Renaissance England"
Julian Yates (Delaware)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00pm
The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation presents:
Rachel DeWoskin, Jennifer Gilmore, and Shannan Rouss
Hosted by Darin Strauss
Friday, April 23
19 University Place, Room 102
1:30pm-7:00pm
The Medieval and Renaissance Center Spring 2010 Conference presents:
Medieval Nature and its Others
with N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University), Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University), Mark Miller (University of Chicago), Kellie Robertson (University of Wisconsin)
Graduate student respondents (TBA)
Moderated by Susan Crane (Columbia University)
7:00pm
The Emerging Writers Reading Series presents:
