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Thursday, November 30 (English Club)
Film Screening of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
PA101, 7:00 PM.
The English Club will be hosting a film screening of George Miller's 2015 eco-dystopian film and blockbuster hit Mad Max: Fury Road (starring Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and Nicholas Hoult). Discussion to follow!
Wednesday, November 29 (Coastlines)
(Coastlines) Coastlines Fall 2017 Showcase
Live Oak Pavilion D, 7:00 PM.
Readings of creative works from authors of past issues and our 2017 contest winners. Reception to follow!
Tuesday, November 7 (Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society)
Sigma Tau Delta Induction and Creative Reading
Jaffe Center for Book Arts (Wimberly Library), 6:00 PM.
New Members of Sigma Tau Delta will be inducted at 6:00 PM. A reading will follow at 7:00 PM
Friday, October 27 (English Graduate Curriculum Committee)
Informational Session for MA/MFA Students: Applying to PhD Programs in English
Living Room Theater Lounge, 7:00 PM
Come join us for an informal conversation about applying to PhD programs in English. Topics of discussion will include researching degree programs, writing strong application materials, funding, coursework, and research.
Thursday, October 19 (Off the Page)
Ira Sukrungruang
Student Union (SU), Palmetto Palm Room, 7:00 PM
Ira Sukrungruang will read from his work. He is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Florida.
Friday, October 13 (Guest Lecturer)
Chandra Mohan, " 'Essentializing' the Literary History of the Fourth World in the Mainstream of a Nation: Challenges in Inclusiveness."
CU 321/321A, 11:00 AM
Indian scholar Chandra Mohan will discuss aboriginality and national literary histories.
Thursday, October 12 (Off the Page)
Carole Maso
Student Union (SU), Majestic Palm Room, 7:00 PM
Carole Maso will read from her work. She is the author of 10 books, including the novels The Art Lover, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, AVA, Defiance, and Mother & Child; essays, Break Every Rule; poems in prose, Beauty is Convulsive and Aureole; and a memoir, The Room Lit By Roses. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Tuesday, October 10 (Body, Mind, and Culture Coffee Colloquium)
Ashvin Kini, "U.S. Exceptionalism in Transnational Context: Race in Post-9/11 Bollywood Cinema."
AH 105, 11:00AM
Ashvin Kini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. His research is on queer affiliations in South-Asian and African Diasporic Fiction and Film. He graduated with a Ph. D. from University of California, San Diego in 2016.
Tuesday, September 26 (Information Session)
Applying to Graduate School in English Information Session
CU 301, 3:00pm
The information session will focus on advice for prospective applicants to MA/ PhD programs in English and MFA programs, including researching and selecting graduate programs, strategizing undergraduate course selection, crafting a strong application (Cover letter, statement of purpose, writing sample, letters of recommendation), MA/MFA programs/timelines vs. PhD programs/timelines, financial considerations of a graduate degree, and what to expect in graduate coursework.
Tuesday, October 10 (Body, Mind, and Culture Coffee Colloquium)
Ashvin Kini, "U.S. Exceptionalism in Transnational Context: Race in Post-9/11 Bollywood Cinema."
AH 105, 11:00AM
Ashvin Kini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. His research is on queer affiliations in South-Asian and African Diasporic Fiction and Film. He graduated with a Ph. D. from University of California, San Diego in 2016.
Thursday, October 12 (Off the Page)
Carole Maso
Student Union (SU), Majestic Palm Room, 7:00 PM
Carole Maso will read from her work. She is the author of 10 books, including the novels The Art Lover, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, AVA, Defiance, and Mother & Child; essays, Break Every Rule; poems in prose, Beauty is Convulsive and Aureole; and a memoir, The Room Lit By Roses. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Friday, October 13 (Guest Lecturer)
Chandra Mohan, " 'Essentializing' the Literary History of the Fourth World in the Mainstream of a Nation: Challenges in Inclusiveness."
CU 321/321A, 11:00 AM
Indian scholar Chandra Mohan will discuss aboriginality and national literary histories.
Wednesday, February 22 (Off the Page)
Rebecca Makkai
Student Union: Majestic Palm, 7.00pm
Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the short story collection Music for Wartime, which appeared in 2015, and of the novels The Hundred-Year House, winner of the Chicago Writers Association's Novel of the Year award, and The Borrower, a Booklist Top Ten Debut which has been translated into eight languages. Her short fiction was chosen for The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), and appears regularly in journals like Harper's, Tin House, and New England Review. The recipient of a 2014 NEA fellowship, Makkai has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Tin House, and Northwestern University.
Wednesday, February 16
Faculty Panel and Roundtable on the Sharon Daniels Project
Schmidt Center Gallery, 10.00am
Panel will include Wendy Hinshaw, Julie Ward, Becka McKay, Camila Afanador Llach, Jeff Galin, and graduate students.
Free and open to the public
More info at 561-297-3838 or whinshaw@fau.edu
Wednesday, February 16 (Off the Page)
Rodrigo Toscano, experimental poet, playwright, and labor activist
Schmidt Center Gallery, 4.00pm
Free and open to the public
Information: 561-297-2974
Rodrigo Toscano is the author of seven collections of poetry including Collapsible Poetics Theater (2008), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series, and Deck of Deeds (2012). His work has been widely translated and anthologized; his radio pieces have aired on stations across the country. Toscano works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Wednesday, January 25 (Off the Page)
Betsy Lerner
Student Union: Majestic Palm, 7.00pm
Betsy Lerner is the author of Bridge Ladies, The Forest for the Trees and Food and Loathing. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry and was the recipient of a Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and was one of PEN's Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors Under 35. After working as an editor for 15 years, she became an agent and is currently a partner with Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.
Wednesday, December 7
Wednesday, November 17
Wednesday, November 16 (Off the Page)
Jensen Beach & Elizabeth Powell
Student Union: Live Oak Room D, 7.00pm
Jensen Beach is the author of two story collections, most recently Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf). He holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an MA and BA in English from Stockholm University. He teaches in the BFA program at Johnson State College, where he is the fiction editor at Green Mountains Review. He's also a faculty member in the MFA Program in Writing & Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has appeared recently in A Public Space, Cincinnati Review, Fifty-Two Stories, Ninth Letter, the Paris Review, and The New Yorker, and online at Tin House, N+1, Kenyon Review, and American Short Fiction, among others. He's received scholarships from the Napa and Sewanee Writers' conferences, and is one of the webeditors at Hobart. He lives in Vermont with his wife and children.
Elizabeth Powell teaches creative writing, literature, editing and publishing at Johnson State College and directs the B.F.A. program. She hails from New York City and has been Vermont resident since 1991. She earned her undergraduate degree in English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and her M.F.A. at Vermont College in Montpelier. She has taught at the University of Vermont and St. Michael's College as well as in the M.F.A. program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Liz is the author of The Republic of Self, a "New Issue First Book Prize" winner selected by C.K. Williams. Her second book of poems, Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, won the 2015 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize and will be published in 2016 by Anhinga Press. The title poem of that book was featured in the "Best American Poetry" blog in November 2015. Her work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology (2013), Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Ecotone, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Slope, Sugarhouse Review, Ploughshares, Post Road, Zocalo Public Square and others. Liz is the editor of Green Mountains Review, JSC's nationally acclaimed literary journal. She mentors students in the college's B.F.A. in Creative Writing program and student interns working on Green Mountains Review. Her research interests include contemporary American poetry, publishing and editing the literary magazine, and the hybrid lyric essay.
Thursday, October 20
They Say I'm Different: Black Radical Cultures, Sexual Cultures, and Social Justice LaMonda Stallings (U Maryland) is giving a talk next week that we are co-sponsoring — Thursday, 10/20, from 4-5:30 PM, in AL 102. The talk is titled, "They Say I'm Different: Black Radical Cultures, Sexual Cultures, and Social Justice." She is an English PhD and previous to her position at Maryland was in the English Dept at U of Florida (and Gender Studies at Indiana U).
Thursday, October 20 (Off the Page)
Victoria Fedden is a humorous memoirist based in South Florida and author of This Is Not My Beautiful Life, which is due out in June of 2016.
Wednesday, October 5
(Postponed, will be rescheduled) Award-winning William Faulkner Scholar Dr. Taylor Hagood presents Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County and a selection of its major characters along with details about the author's life in a single narrative. The lecture will address America's greatest 20th century writer in the words of a scholar and native of Faulkner's home state, punctuated by visual images of that storied place.
Thursday, September 22
Creative Reading - Talent includes Professor Becka McKay & Student Writers Lynn Jonason, Marina Decicco, and Ashley George.
Thursday, March 3 (Off the Page)
David Keplinger is the author of four books,most recently The Most Natural Thing (New Issues, 2013) as well as three books in translation from the German and the Danish. He is the recipient of the 2014 Cavafy Prize, the 1999 T.S. Eliot Award, grants from the DC Council on the Arts and the Danish Arts Council, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2006 Colorado Book Award, and other honors. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and other magazines. Keplinger teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. Ritter Art Gallery, 7 pm
Wednesday, March 23 - Thursday, March 24
English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Spring Conference - FAU's English Graduate Student Society organizes an open biannual conference every Fall and Spring semester for those within the graduate program to showcase their current academic research and writing. The conference consists of two days of panels of criticism, as well a creative reading Thursday night. For more information please visit the EGSS Facebook page.
Wednesday, March 30
Faith Smith's research interests in the cultural production and intellectual history of the Caribbean range across the aesthetic strategies of writers and artists contending with the legacies of slavery and indentureship, feminist engagements with the state in the wake of globalization, and the resonance of archival histories of intimacy and loss in our post (-national/colonial/racial) present. Her book manuscript, "Whose Modern? Forging Futures in the Trans-Caribbean, 1900-1915," focuses on the period just before the beginning of the First World War. An Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, English, and University in Massachusetts, this semester she is teaching in the English Department at Florida Atlantic University. CU 301, 1-3 pm
Thursday, March 31
Sigma Tau Delta Reading - Membership into Sigma Tau Delta is an esteemed privilege open to students who have distinguished themselves academically. The society was founded in 1924 at the Dakota Wesleyan University. Today it includes 850 chapters, and over 9,000 members inducted annually. Our mission is to foster a love of literature and writing on the college campus and in the surrounding community. Our local FAU chapter hosts book clubs, movie screenings, service projects, and field trips to literary events! This is a community of English scholars at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who have come together through a love of literature and a desire to foster an appreciation for the beauty of the written word. Jaffe Center (Wimberly Library), 6-8:30 pm
Thursday, February 18 ] (Off the Page)
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two young sons. In 2012, President Barack Obama appointed Betts to the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. An award-winning writer and poet, Betts' memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, was the recipient of the 2010 NAACP Image Award for non-fiction. In 2010 he was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to complete The Circumference of a Prison, a work of nonfiction exploring the criminal justice system. Betts is also the author of two collections of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm and Bastards of the Reagan Era. In addition to his writing, Betts is National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, a not for profit organization dedicating to ending the practice of sending juveniles to prison with adults. He received a B.A. from the University of Maryland and was recently a Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies. Majestic Palm Room (Student Union), 7 pm
Thursday, February 11
Readings In DIRT - Six nationally recognized writers will read original works that explore the theme of "dirt," its literal and figurative connotations, in conjunction with the exhibition "DIRT: Yuta Suelo Udongo Tè," which is currently on view at Florida Atlantic University's Ritter Gallery. The readings take place on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., and are free and open to the public. More information can be found at www.fau.edu/galleries. Ritter Art Gallery, 7 pm
Friday, February 5 (Off the Page)
Jay Critchley's visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, Colombia and the United States. A longtime Provincetown, Cape Cod resident, he utilizes the town, landscape, harbor, beaches and dunes as his medium. He produced, wrote and directed several movies and documentaries, including: Toilet Treatments, HBO Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. His Beige Motel project involved encrusting a 1955 iconic, roadside motel in sand - "an A-frame with wings" before it was demolished. Significant awards include a special citation from the Boston Society of Architects for his visionary, environmental proposal, Martucket Eyeland Resort & Theme Park and an award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum / Smithsonian Museum in NYC for his ecological response to Boston's Big Dig - mega highway / tunnel project: Big Twig. Schmidt Center Gallery, 7 pm
Thursday, January 28, 2016
(Lawrence Sanders Writer in Residence 2016): Tom Sleigh
Tom Sleigh's many books include Station Zed; Army Cats, winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAAL); and Space Walk, winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. Far Side of the Earth won an Academy Award from the AAAL, The Dreamhouse was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award, and The Chain was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. His work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Pushcart Anthology. He's received the PSA's Shelley Prize, and awards from the American Academy in Berlin, Civitella Ranieri, the Lila Wallace Fund, the Guggenheim, two NEAs, among others. He teaches at Hunter College and works as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa. Majestic Palm Room (Student Union) 7 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 (Off the Page)
Russell Banks - A prolific writer of fiction, Russell Banks's titles include The Darling, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter, Rule of the Bone, Affliction, Success Stories, Continental Drift,Searching for Survivors, Trailerpark, The Book of Jamaica, The New World, Hamilton Stark, The Reserve and Lost Memory of Skin. His most recent book, a collection of short stories titled A Permanent Member of the Family, was published in November 2013 from Ecco/Harper Collins. Banks has contributed poems, stories, and essays to The Boston Globe Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Harper's and numerous others. His novels, Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter, were adapted into feature films which received widespread critical acclaim. Majestic Palm Room (Student Union), 7 pm
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
(National Day on Writing):
Chantel Acevedo's novels include Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martin's Press), which won the Latino International Book Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year; Song of the Red Cloak, a historical novel for young adults; A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press), winner of the Doris Bakwin Award and National Bronze Medal IPPY Award; and The Distant Marvels, (Europa Editions), which Booklist called "a major, uniquely powerful, and startlingly beautiful novel." She is currently an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Program at the University of Miami. Schmidt Gallery, 6 pm
Thursday, March 26, 2015:
Bingham Visiting Writer
Lucie Brock-Broido is a professor and Director of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She received her BA and her MA from Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from Columbia University. Her most recent book Stay, Illusion was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry and for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her previous collections of poetry include Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award; The Master Letters (1995); and A Hunger (1988). Her awards and honors include the Witter-Bynner prize for poetry from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Free and open to the public. 4 p.m. Schmidt Center Gallery
Wednesday, February 18, 2015:
Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq's Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College and received an MFA. His story "Redeployment" was originally published in Granta and is included in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War . His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, the New York Daily News, Tin House, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. Co-sponsored by FAU Military and Veterans Affairs. Free and open to the public. 7 p.m. Student Union Building
Tuesday, January 27, 2015:
Roxane Gay's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon , and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK . She is also the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and Hunger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016. Free and open to the public 7:30 p.m. Student Union Building
Thursday, January 15, 2015:
This year's Sanders Writer-in-Residence is Jo Ann Beard. Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth, and the novel In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker," "Tin House," "Best American Essays," and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. 7 p.m. Majestic Palm Room, reception to follow
Thursday, October 30, 2014:
I Know What You Did Last Semester: Murder Mystery Costume Party. Join the English Club for a little murder mystery fun! Dress up as your favorite literary character or villain and help us figure out whodunit! 7 p.m. Book Wise Bookstore (see flyer attached for address and details)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014:
Where Are They Now: What They Did With Their English Degree Alumni Panel. Come to our FAU English Alumni Panel to find out about the diverse positions our graduates have accepted.
See flyer
7 p.m. AH 205
Friday, September 12, 2014:
Professor Dalleo will be starting our Fall Brown Bag Symposium with his presentation, "'A romance of the race, just down there by Panama': West Indians in the Harlem Renaissance and the U.S. Occupation of Haiti." 12 p.m. CU 321
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - Thursday April 17, 2014
The English Graduate Student Society will be having their Spring 2014 Graduate Student Conference.
Monday, March 24, 2014:
Brown Bag Series - Professor Regis Mann , "Theorizing freedom as an Economy of Violence in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig." 12 p.m. CU 321
Thursday, March 20, 2014:
Tayari Jones
A recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University, where she was awarded with a Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence, the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, a Leader in Faculty Diversity Award. Her work has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts and The United States Artists Foundation and the arts councils of Arizona and Illinois. She spent the 2011-12 academic year at Harvard University as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, researching her forthcoming novel, Dear History.
7:00 p.m. Student Union Majestic Palm Room
Friday, March 14, 2014:
English Students vs. English Faculty Spelling Bee. Are you up for the challenge? The English club is hosting a Spelling Bee- English Students vs. English Faculty. Up for prize is a $20 Visa Gift Card and Bragging Rights.
3:00 p.m. CU 321, Boca Campus
Thursday, February 27, 2014:
English Internship Information Session. Come learn about the English Internship Program and how to set yourself up for success. Check out the flyer! 3:30-4:30 p.m. AH 209, Boca Raton campus
Tuesday, February 25, 2014:
What Can I Do With My English Degree? Come and learn more about life after English and what you can do with your degree. The workshop is open to English undergraduates and undecided students.Check out the flyer! 3:30-4:30 p.m. AH 205, Boca Raton campus
Thursday, February 20, 2014:
William Boggess William Boggess began his career at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, before working at Barer Literary as the agency assistant until 2010. After leaving for two years to work on the editorial side at Little, Brown and Company, he is returning to represent literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, as well as provide editorial support for the agency's authors. He grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 7:00 p.m. Student Union Majestic Palm Room
Thursday, January 24, 2014:
Brian Turner
Brian Turner is the author of two collections of poetry—Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise Alice James Books; 2005, 2010). Both collections are also available in the U.K. from Bloodaxe Books (2007, 2010). "Here, Bullet" is a New York Times "Editor 's Choice" selection and has won numerous awards (including the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award and the 2007 Poets Prize). The 2009-2010 Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar, Turner has also been awarded a 2009 USA Hillcrest Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His work has been published in Poetry Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review and others. He teaches at Sierra Nevada College. 7:00 p.m. Student Union Majestic Palm Room
Thursday, January 16, 2014:
Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2011), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O'Brien he is the co-author of Three Poets published by Minus A Press in 2012.. He is a recipient of The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize and fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is the poetry editor of Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts. 4:00 p.m., Schmidt Center Gallery
For more information, contact the Department of English at 561-297-3830or english@fau.edu.