"Dina Nayeri was born in Iran during the revolution and arrived in the United States when she was ten years old. She is the winner of the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, as well as a finalist for the Rome Prize and a Granta … Continue reading CHAT Distinguished Speaker A Q&A with Dina Nayeri
During the Weekend Writing & Research Retreats sponsored by the Student Success Center, you’ll set a writing goal and commit to focused working time. You’ll work independently (but alongside a virtual community of other writers) in 50-minute chunks with 10-minute breaks in between.
Stop by for a drink and meet up with fellow English grads! Maxi's is located on Temple's campus on Liacouras Walk (between Charles Library and North Broad).
992441The first Graduate English Forum will be held on November 18th via Zoom, featuring PhD candidates Tania Islam and Vanessa Loh, who will describe their intriguing work. Faculty response and Q&A will follow. All Graduate Students are expected to attend. Click here for more details.
Join us from December 7 to December 14 at Charles Library for our Crunch Time Café, a series of events during study days and final exams that includes free food, activities, and therapy dogs.
The December Weekend Writing & Research Retreat is a virtual retreat offered by the Student Success Center. During the Weekend Writing & Research Retreat, you'll set a writing goal and commit to focused working time. You'll work independently (but alongside a virtual community of other writers) in 50-minute chunks with 10-minute breaks in between.
CHAT will provide a FREE COPY of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work by Katina Rogers to the first 20 registrants to support engagement in our active discussion! Graduate students in the Humanities are especially encouraged to join. Faculty and administrators are also welcome. Discussion moderated by Kate Brelje (Philosophy).
Mary Gordon is the author of nine novels, including Final Payments, The Love of My Youth, Pearl, There Your Heart Lies, and Payback; seven works of nonfiction, including the memoirs Circling My Mother and The Shadow Man; and four collections of short fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. … Continue reading Poets & Writers Series – Mary Gordon (Fiction) in Conversation with Kiley Reid
The Graduate Forum will continue in the Spring with a Zoom event on Feb. 17, featuring two more of our advanced doctoral students and moderated by Ryan Omizo. Scott Thompson: “The Social Ecology of Character: Reading Popular Psychology and Determinism in the Victorian Sensation Novel” Micah Savaglio: “Teaching Disability and Access: Unflattening Multimodal Composition” See … Continue reading Graduate Forum
For too long, colleagues have taught side by side but avoided conversations about what we know in common or can learn from each other about writing and writers. We have let administrative and historical boundaries stand in the way of companionship and mutual support in the difficult task of teaching students and investigating discourses, genres, … Continue reading Eli Goldblatt, “Can We Talk? What Creative Writing, Literary Criticism and Composition/Rhetoric Can Learn From Each Other About Writing”