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Megha Majumdar, Fiction Reading – January 26, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Jan. 5, 2023—♦ January 26, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Megha Majumdar, fiction Megha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Editors’ Choice A Burning, which was also selected as one of Margaret Atwood’s “Quarantine Reads,” a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, and a Book of the Month Pick. She was born and raised in Kolkata,...
Uwem Akpan, Fiction Reading – November 10, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Nov. 4, 2022—♦November 10, 7 PM in Buttrick 101: Uwem Akpan, fiction Uwen Akpan is the author of the novel New York, My Village. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Hekima Review, and The Nigerian Guardian. His first book, Say You’re One of Them, an Oprah Book Club selection, received the...
Fall 2022 Drake Lecture Series: Grant Farred
Sep. 19, 2022—The Vanderbilt Department of English presents the Fall 2022 Drake Lecture on Oct. 7th at 3:15pm in the Main Library 4th Floor Community Room. This event is free and open to the public. “Monstrous Hands: Thinking Martin Heidegger” with Professor Grant Farred, visiting from Cornell University. “The hand,” Heidegger insists, “is the instrument of thinking.” “The...
The Second Year Conference
Aug. 30, 2022—Join us on Friday, Sept. 23 from 10am – 1:30pm in Kissam C210 for the English Department’s annual Second Year Conference. This conference is a showcase of works by the 2nd-year PhD students, and this year will feature 3rd-year students as well. Lunch will be provided. Please REGISTER HERE, and reach out to Connor Abram...
MFA Third-Year Reading – Thursday April 28 at 7PM
Apr. 26, 2022—Come support the third-year MFA students at the student reading, this Thursday, April 28 at 7 PM in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium. This year’s reading will feature work by: Lara Casey, Hayes Cooper, Jessica Lee, Yi Jiang, Kiyoko Reidy, and Pallavi Wakharkar. Click here for the downloadable flyer.
Embody and Catalyze: A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers
Apr. 16, 2022—The English department at Vanderbilt University is happy to announce “Embody and Catalyze: A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers”! The conference will honor the career and contributions of Hortense Spillers, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor and Distinguished Research Professor (Emerita) and will take place on Thursday May 19th and Friday May 20th, 2022. Registration required. Please...
(4/14/2022) Vievee Francis, poetry reading: 7 PM, Buttrick Hall 101
Apr. 7, 2022—Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2016), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for...
Students, Submit Poems for 2022 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize!
Mar. 14, 2022—All Vanderbilt students are eligible for the Academy of American Poets’ Student Poetry Prize. For information and submission guidelines, click here.
POETRY CONTEST: Unity & Democracy
Feb. 9, 2022—Vanderbilt students are invited to express how they feel about unity and democracy through a new poetry contest. The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy is holding the contest in partnership with the Department of English and Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. The theme is “what unity through American democracy means to...
(4/7/2022) Aimee Bender, fiction reading: 7 PM, Virtual
Jan. 8, 2022— Aimee Bender is the author of six books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of...