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MFA poets perform at Southern Festival of Books
Oct. 23, 2025—Several students in the MFA Creative Writing program appeared on October 19th at the Southern Festival of Books. Poets Ayesha Asad, Kinsale Drake, Alexandra Green, Athena Nassar, Lana Reeves, and Kanchi Sharma read from their latest works, joining more than 175 regionally and nationally recognized authors at the festival. This year’s event was titled “Vanderbilt...
Join us for English trivia and Fresh Mex – October 22
Oct. 21, 2025—
Alex Dubilet publishes “Political Theology Reimagined”
Oct. 7, 2025—The contributors demonstrate that political theology is a powerful resource by which to both recognize and challenge the modalities of politics and social life that are practiced in our own time. The reimagination that the title points to is not so much a way to start political theology all over again but to focus on...
Victoria Chang joins the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series
Oct. 7, 2025—Poet Victoria Chang joined the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series on October 2 with her collection With My Back Against the World, which NPR called “poems of remarkable vividness and depth . . . engaging in a constant celebration of life in terms of its inexorable passing, a feast of grief in...
Join the Undergraduate Honor Council
Oct. 3, 2025—
Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination – October 24
Oct. 3, 2025— Friday, October 17 12:00 – 2:00 PM Central Library 211 Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination a lecture by Soraya Murray Soraya Murray contemplates the pivotal figure of the Black technologist, also known as ‘Black tech,’ in technothriller films. This work is part of Murray’s forthcoming Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, 2026),...
“Richard Coer de Lyon” and the State of Exception – October 17
Sep. 29, 2025— Friday, October 17 12:00 – 2:00 PM Central Library 211 Desperate Measures Call for Desperate Times: Richard Coer de Lyon and the State of Exception a lecture by Mariah Min The Middle English Romance Richard Coer de Lyon considers the crusades to be an emergency that necessitates extreme measures. Simultaneously, the enormity of Richard’s transgressions is...
Internship Search Party – October 1
Sep. 24, 2025—Wednesday, October 1 6:00 – 8:00 PM Divinity School 127 Want to learn more about finding internships appropriate for humanities majors? Alayna Hayes, Senior Director of the Career Center, will introduce successful search strategies! Dinner from Chipotle will be served.
Jared Harvey’s new novel available now
Sep. 24, 2025—Lecturer Jared Harvey‘s latest novel is now available from Asterism Books. Soft Lighting is written almost exclusively in the first-person singular and plural, and stages a motley of narrators (or only one) who respond to one another or who do not, and if not, I wonder whether desire for interpersonal connection withers, or excruciates. There is no...
Lydi Conklin joins the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series
Sep. 19, 2025—Assistant Professor Lydi Conklin joined the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series on September 4 to share their new novel Songs of No Provenance. In addition to reading from the work, which the Chicago Review of Books called “a great American music novel . . . a lush, wild story, textured with sensory and technical descriptions...