Join the Graduate English Association for a professionalization workshop on "Research Methods & Practices." Professors Dan O'Hara and Miles Orvell will give presentations, joined by Temple English graduate student Jen McKim. … Continue reading Research Methods & Practices Workshop
With spring break upon us, we will be having the first GEA happy hour of the semester this Friday, 5pm at Revolution House on 2nd and Market in Old City. Revolution House … Continue reading GEA Happy Hour!
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 … Continue reading Panel on Surface Reading with Stephen Best, Heather Love, & Sharon Marcus
Moonstone Arts Center & The Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University present a reading with literary artists and activists Kadija (George) Sesay and Trapeta B. Mayson. Kadija (George) Sesay is the founder and editor of Sable LitMag. She is the editor of several anthologies of work by writers of African and Asian descent, and … Continue reading Poetry Reading: Kadija (George) Sesay & Trapeta B. Mayson
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The Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program's Poets & Writers series presents a reading by Rae Armantrout. Rae Armantrout’s most recent book of poems, Money Shot, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2011. Versed (Wesleyan, 2009) received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the National Book … Continue reading Temple University Poets & Writers Series: Rae Armantrout
A Panel Discussion and Colloquium To Celebrate The Fortieth Anniversary Of Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973) Which First Shows How Imaginative Revisionism (Re-) Shapes The Creative Norm of Humanity The Event Will Be Attended By A Special Guest, Henry Carrigan (Assistant Director and Senior Acquisitions Editor of Northwestern University Press) And The Festivities … Continue reading Revisionary Humanities And The Sufferings Of History: Panel Discussion & Colloquium Celebrating Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence
The Center for the Humanities at Temple presents a lecture by English professor Priya Joshi for their Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series. In "Rethinking the Theory of the Novel," Dr. Joshi will examine the recent explosion of commercially successful English novels in India. What theory of the novel might emerge when it is based on anti-literary forms? How might attention … Continue reading CHAT Lecture with Priya Joshi: Rethinking the Theory of the Novel
Join feminist/disability activist Harilyn Rousso for a reading of her new memoir, Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back (Temple University Press). Rousso, a renowned feminist and disability scholar, is politically progressive, insightfully compassionate, and fiercely honest about herself as a woman in today’s society. All disciplines are encouraged to attend. Discussion sponsored … Continue reading Harilyn Rousso’s Don’t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back