Colgate University English Department

04/07/2022

The Milton-A-Thon is back !

03/08/2022

Conversation with Jesmyn Ward, 2011 recipient of National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones and the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.

Colgate English Department professors CJ Hauser and Dana Cypress on March 4, 2022 at Colgate's Celebration of Women

07/23/2021

On Thursday, July 29, join faculty from the English, environmental studies, and geology departments, as well as from LGBTQ and peace & conflict studies, for a roundtable about the Living Writers Summer Read: Omar El Akkad's dystopian novel, American War. Everyone is welcome. For details & to register, go to colgate.edu/livingwriters and click on the Summer Read tab.

04/16/2021

Please join us next week on Thursday, April 22 at 4:30pm for a reading from our O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing! This will be our last event for the year and a special one at that, so we hope to see you there!

04/12/2021

The link to join the livestream is http://skidmo.re/CornelWest.

04/08/2021

Join us today at 4:30 for a Poetry Reading with John Foy, winner of the 2020 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. We're honored to have him, and we hope to see you there!

Please register here: https://bit.ly/3q3idgc

Event link: https://colgate.zoom.us/s/95749615814

04/01/2021

Happening today! It's not too late to register, and you can find the link below. Hope to see you there!

Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 1 at 4:30pm as we welcome Khatchig Mouradian, lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. He is also the Armenian and Georgian area specialist at the Library of Congress.

Please click the link below to register:
https://bit.ly/3qWqXWR

Event link:
https://colgate.zoom.us/s/95952976259
We hope to see you there!

03/25/2021

Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 1 at 4:30pm as we welcome Khatchig Mouradian, lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. He is also the Armenian and Georgian area specialist at the Library of Congress.

Please click the link below to register:
https://bit.ly/3qWqXWR

Event link:
https://colgate.zoom.us/s/95952976259
We hope to see you there!

03/01/2021

Hello everyone! We hope your week is off to a great start. The English Department would like to invite you to a poetry reading with the award-winning poet, Joy Harjo, on Thursday, March 18th at 4:30pm.

We are honored to have her with us, and we hope to see you there! The link to register is below. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Registration link: https://colgate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkdeusrz8rHNTMWYy8-7UP6YOPR0S02Qgn

Zoom link:
https://colgate.zoom.us/s/96922414160

02/09/2021

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday!

Here is a quick update to the poetry event posted yesterday:

Please join the English Department in welcoming poet Susan Barba for a reading via Zoom on Thursday, February 11 at 4:30pm.

You can register by following this link: https://bit.ly/3tmlpX3

We hope to see you there!

02/08/2021

As always, Professor CJ Hauser is hosting The Write-In, Tuesdays from 6-7:15pm on Zoom!

This is a space for creative writers, students and english alums alike, to get together and create!

Please email [email protected] to be added to the email list.

11/16/2020

“The stories are all thought-experiments. What if, they ask. Why not? And, what the heck?”
– The Guardian

Etgar Keret’s voice sounds “like somebody talking to you across the kitchen table,” says Greg Ames, associate professor of English and a short story writer himself. Prof. Ames had other words to describe the stories in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: “demented fairy tales or fables,” “cartoons,” “a joke on the rickety old idea of realism.” Every one of the short-short stories in this collection delivers a jolt of pleasure.

Join us on Thursday, 4:45 p.m., for Mr. Keret’s Living Writers appearance. Free and open to all. To register, click the first link below

The stories in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door are begging to be unpacked. Join us for a faculty-led book discussion on Wednesday, 6 p.m. Everyone welcome. No time to finish the collection between now and then? No problem—just bring a couple you’d like to discuss. To register, click the second link below.

As always, you can find reviews, interviews, and podcasts—with Prof. Ames and with Mr. Keret himself—on the Living Writers website.

Questions? Write to us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter .

Mr. Keret’s appearance is co-sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies and the Lautenberg Family Fund.

https://colgate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__MZGKZuUQhyCJ7be7fWlng

https://colgate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcuquqjItG9yCh7_OaMx070P3MSiT5XOJ