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Toby Thompson is the author of six books, the most recent of which is Fired On: Targeting Western American Art, published in March 2020 by Bangtail Press....
1/28/2021 7:30pm
Virtual Event
Climate change is a critical scientific and social issue, and nowhere are the consequences of a warming climate more pronounced and observable than in the...
2/23/2021 5pm
Virtual Event
Join a panel discussion with Professor Hester Blum, the documentary's Emmy award-winning producer/director Dave Clark, and other expedition participants...
2/23/2021 6pm
Virtual Event
Cary Holladay’s publications include eight volumes of fiction, most recently Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella (Swallow/Ohio University Press 2019),...
3/25/2021 7:30pm
Virtual Event
Panel discussion moderated by Penn State alumnus Jason Cherkis '95 English, journalist
4/6/2021 3pm
Virtual Event
Tim Seibles is the author of six collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), and...
4/7/2021 7:30pm
The Chronicle Review introduced their recent via via Zoom Zoom collection “Endgame: Can literary studies survive?” with the bold statement, “The...
4/16/2021 12pm
Virtual Event
James Charlesworth’s first novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, was published in 2019. He is a frequent contributor of music-related essays for...
9/9/2021 7:30pm
Alicia Ostriker has published seventeen volumes of poetry, including The Volcano and After; Waiting for the Light; The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The...
9/23/2021 7:30pm
Virtual Event
Alissa Nutting is the author of the story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, as well as the novels Tampa and Made for Love. A television series...
10/14/2021 7:30pm
Virtual Event
Elizabeth Kadetsky’s The Memory Eaters was named among “great books from small presses to read now” by Buzzfeed during the COVID pandemic, and was featured...
11/4/2021 7pm
Foster Auditorium
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2021 marks the centennial anniversary of Langston Hughes publishing one of his best known poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” The poem was a signature poem...
12/3/2021 12pm
Virtual Event
Emily Grosholz teaches philosophy at Penn State and has been an advisory editor for The Hudson Review since 1984. She has published eight books of poetry....
1/30/2020 7:30pm
Chet’la Sebree is the author of Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize. Sebree is an assistant professor and...
2/13/2020 7:30pm
Chet’la Sebree is the author of Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize. Sebree is an assistant professor and...
2/13/2020 7:30pm
Join us online or at local events to help transcribe, read, and teach the papers of Anna Julia Cooper, a visionary Black feminist. Her work influenced...
2/14/2020 12pm
Alice McDermott’s eighth novel, The Ninth Hour (2017), appeared on numerous “best books of the year” lists, and her seventh novel, Someone (2013) was a New...
4/16/2020 7:30pm
The College of the Liberal Arts is hosting a lecture series featuring several faculty members discussing different dimensions of the COVID-19...
5/26/2020 3pm
The College of the Liberal Arts is hosting a lecture series featuring several faculty members discussing different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
5/28/2020 3pm
The College of the Liberal Arts is hosting a lecture series featuring several faculty members discussing different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The...
6/2/2020 3pm
Voices of Power in Women’s Activism This year’s Marathon Read will celebrate the work of female writers and activists to expand political, social, and...
10/22/2020 10am
Virtual Event
"Conflicting Trauma: Collaborative Uptake of Complex PTSD" by Ana Cooke Contemporary public discourse is increasingly shaped by conflicts surrounding how...
11/11/2020 12pm
Virtual Event
Digital technologies are nearly ubiquitous and serve a great many purposes, but this very heterogeneity discourages an analysis of universal characteristics...
3/14/2019 3:30pm
New psychiatric research leashes mobile device data to neuroscientific and genetic research for the purpose of resolving weaknesses in psychiatric...
3/28/2019 3:30pm
An Earth Day talk by Dorion Sagan. Sagan is a prolific science and fiction writer, author of some twenty books, including the recent Cosmic Apprentice:...
4/22/2019 4pm
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The...
9/12/2019 7:30pm
Vicki Glembocki is an award-winning magazine writer, author of the memoir The Second Nine Months, and a contributing editor at Readers Digest. Her work has...
10/10/2019 7:30pm
Callan Wink works as a fly fishing guide in Livingston, MT. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men's Journal, The Best American...
11/7/2019 7:30pm
Todd Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Native Species (2019) and Winterkill (2016), both published by Michigan...
11/14/2019 7:30pm
White supremacists, synagogue shootings, antisemitism on the streets of Europe --and all of this in the past year. How do we make sense of the fact that 75%...
12/5/2019 4pm
Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the award-winning author of five books of poetry: Madwoman, The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems, This...
1/25/2018 7:30pm
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica, and The Mare. She has also written three story collections: Bad Behavior,...
2/21/2018 7:30pm
Sunil Yapa’s first novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016) found its way onto many “best” lists, including Time Magazine’s Best Books of the...
3/22/2018 7:30pm
Jillian Cantor earned a BA in English from Penn State University and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is the author of award-winning novels for...
4/3/2018 7:30pm
Lecture sponsored by the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Department of English This talk comes from my book The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the...
4/5/2018 3:30pm
Co-sponsors are the departments of Comparative Literature, English, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the LGBTQA Student Resource Center funded by...
4/5/2018 5pm
Many current discussions of human rights dispute whether their justification is moral or political. Neither position is satisfactory. If human rights have no...
4/27/2018 3:30pm
This year Marathon Read joins in the commemoration of 50 years since the watershed year of 1968. Marathon Read will feature texts written or published in...
9/13/2018 10am
A meeting designed for undergraduates enrolled in Rhetoric and Civic Life who would like to learn more about majoring in English.
2/8/2017 11am
Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels Good on Paper (Melville House 2016) and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville House 2014). Two dozen of her stories...
2/16/2017 7:30pm
CALS will sponsor the roundtable “Rethinking the American West” in the Mann Assembly Room, Pattee-Paterno Library. Three invited panelists will discuss how...
3/14/2017 4pm
Lecture sponsored by the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Department of English Andrew Kopec, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne This...
3/17/2017 3:30pm
CALS will host “Radical Engagements: Speculative Fictions and Social Justice,” the 6th Annual CALS Spring Symposium, in Foster Auditorium, Pattee-Paterno...
3/20/2017 10am
Sarah Manguso is the author of four books of prose including Ongoingness, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians, an investigation of friendship...
3/22/2017 7:30pm
Lecture sponsored by the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Department of English Pooja Rangan, Amherst College What can autism teach us about the...
3/31/2017 4pm
CALS will sponsor the roundtable “Rethinking the American West” in the Mann Assembly Room, Pattee-Paterno Library. Three invited panelists will discuss how...
4/3/2017 4pm
Lecture sponsored by the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Department of English Margaret Schwartz, Fordham University What happens when we view care...
4/14/2017 3:30pm
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as Poems in Conversation and a...
9/7/2017 7:30pm
Chris Bachelder’s fourth novel, The Throwback Special, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in fiction. He was awarded the Terry Southern Prize...
9/14/2017 7:30pm
"From Metagames to Moneygames" Metagames, simply put, are games about games. They are the games we play in, on, around, and through videogames. And although...
10/12/2017 1:45pm
U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015) and three books of poetry. Her collection...
10/19/2017 7:30pm
Nancy Chen Long is the author of Light into Bodies, winner of the 2016 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2017) and the chapbook...
10/27/2017 4pm
A dramatic production of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
11/1/2017 7pm
Suki Kim is the only writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea. Her New York Times bestselling book of investigative literary nonfiction, Without You,...
11/14/2017 7:30pm
Jennifer Haigh’s novel HEAT AND LIGHT was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Slate...
12/1/2017 7:30pm
Charlotte Holmes is the author of The Grass Labyrinth and Gifts adn Other Stories. A long-time teacher of creative writing at Penn State, she has received...
1/21/2016 7:30pm
Paola Corso, poet, essayist, and author of The Laundress Catches Her Breath and Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing.
2/3/2016 12:10pm
Drawing upon first-hand accounts, diaries, and letters, Karen Abbott’s Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy re-writes the stories of four incredible, real-life...
3/1/2016 3:30pm
Kate Daniels is the author of four collections of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria's Secret (LSU 2011), her most recent. She is Professor of English and...
3/24/2016 7:30pm
Abstract: In our rejoinders to the advance of technology, we often assume that ours is an unprecedented historical conjuncture. This talk, however, will...
3/31/2016 3:30pm
Presentation description: Taking up certain aspects of my 2014 article "The Perils of the Digital Humanities," this talk will address the complex...
4/21/2016 2pm
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to five other novels, including One Foot in...
9/26/2016 7:30pm
Many humanities disciplines are finally taking critical games studies seriously at the same time that the gaming industrial complex (GIC), as I call it,...
10/6/2016 3:30pm
An opportunity for English majors to learn about applying for graduate study in English.
10/10/2016 3:30pm
Photo Credit: Josh Clark as Proteus and Ross Neal as Valentine in THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. Photo by Michael Bailey.
10/16/2016 2pm
Juan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2017) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served...
10/19/2016 7:30pm
Join us for the next in our series of conferences, Celebrating African American Literature and Language, which will focus on the long tradition of "Race and...
10/28/2016
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Third Voice, (Tupelo Press, 2017), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye...
11/3/2016 7:30pm
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City. Her work appears in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize...
12/1/2016 7:30pm
Elizabeth Benedict is a graduate of Barnard College and the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost and the National Book Award finalist Slow...
9/24/2015 7:30pm
Iris van der Tuin from Utrecht University in the Netherlands will present.
10/20/2015 4pm
Vijay Seshadri is the author of three collections of poetry, including 3 Sections, which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer Prize...
10/29/2015 7:30pm
On Tuesday, November 3, the American Shakespeare Center On Tour will present a free performance of William Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth to...
11/3/2015 7pm
American Shakespeare Center on tour will perform Henry V. Details for the performance will be posted as they become available.
11/4/2015
Merrill Gilfillan is the award-winning author of two short story collections, many books of poems, and five essay collections. Much of his work addresses...
11/12/2015 7:30pm
Julie Johnson will be launching her new book about iron furnaces and industrialization in PA, Jumping the Pit.
11/18/2015 7pm
Speaker bio: Dr. Anna Everett is a Professor of Film, Television and New Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She was...
12/3/2015 4pm