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Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators’ Fall Workshop

Via Zoom

Sponsored by Temple University, this workshop invites writing program instructors and administrators to consider the ways in which higher education writing instruction can address issues of equality and diversity in the classroom and in our students’ lives. With the ongoing pandemic and the national attention being paid to the Black Lives Matter movement, we can … Continue reading Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators’ Fall Workshop

FRIDAY: Art After 5 Graduate English social outing

Philadelphia Museum of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia

The GEA would like to invite you to our fall graduate student outing, a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the October 25 Art After Five. On October 25th, the Art After Five series will feature some short films of Charlie Chaplin, live music by Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Orchestra, and performances by Vaudevillian … Continue reading FRIDAY: Art After 5 Graduate English social outing

$14.00

Panel on Surface Reading with Stephen Best, Heather Love, & Sharon Marcus

Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia

This month's presentation of the Penn Humanities Forum, Humanities-At-Large, features a discussion with Stephen Best, Heather Love, and Sharon Marcus on surface reading. In "New Ways of Reading: Histories of Surface Reading," Stephen Best, Heather Love, and Sharon Marcus make the case for valorizing descriptive practices in literary criticism. The presentation takes as its starting point … Continue reading Panel on Surface Reading with Stephen Best, Heather Love, & Sharon Marcus