Brandeis University English Department

05/08/2024

Environmental Futures: A Conversation with Caren Irr and Beth Daley
May 21, 2024

Time: 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Location: Zoom (details here)

A discussion of Professor Caren Irr's new book, Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology (Brandeis University Press). Professor Irr will be joined in conversation by Executive Editor of The Conversation US Beth Daley. The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.

Image: book cover with image of a person standing underwater with trees coming out of her head.

05/07/2024

Rebecca Perlmutter '24 (ENG major, pictured) and Sasha Astrof '24 (ENG/CW minor) have been accepted into the prestigious Columbia Publishing Course, a graduate-level summer course that provides an intensive introduction to all aspects of book and magazine publishing.

Perlmutter said, "I applied to the program eager to learn more about publishing from CPC's industry experts and participate in their rigorous workshops and editing seminars. I am thrilled to be going to this program to learn more about the publishing industry before beginning a career in the thing I love most: BOOKS!"

image: Rebecca Perlmutter standing in a tree

04/26/2024

PhD student Rachel Dale has co-edited the book, Embodied Testimonies, Gendered Memories, and the Poetics of Trauma: Exploring the Intersection of Deconstructionist and Postcolonial Trauma Theory (Maryam Ghodrati, Rachel Dale (Eds.), by James E. Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Layla AlAmmar (American University of Kuwait, Kuwait), Nora E. H. Parr (University of Birmingham), Concetta Principe (Trent University)).

From Vernon Press: "Embodied Testimonies, Gendered Memories, and the Poetics of Trauma is a collection of academic essays that uses mainstream and postcolonial trauma theory in the analysis of literary and artistic representations of traumatic history. This collection prioritizes historical and personal accounts from the perspectives of Iranian, Arab, Jewish, and Black women to highlight the ways in which gender, race, and religion shape experiences of trauma." Purchase the book today! https://vernonpress.com/book/1904

Image: book cover with image of an intertwined arm and prosthetic leg

04/16/2024

04/12/2024

"How might refocusing graduate work on student needs and skills help to create a more equitable and democratic doctoral program?"

Read about changes to the Brandeis English PhD program in an article published by the American Council of Learned Societies.

https://www.acls.org/resources/brandeis-university-graduate-program-in-english/

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In fall of 2020, a team of two faculty members and an advanced graduate student from the English PhD program at ACLS Associate Member Brandeis University attended the Modern Language Association’s virtual Summit on the Future of Doctoral Education. According to Ulka Anjaria, professor of English a...

04/09/2024

A Conversation With Prumsodun Ok
April 15, 2024

Time: 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Location: Mandel Atrium

Prumsodun Ok is a Khmer classical dance choreographer, dancer, educator and scholar, and LGBTQ+ rights activist.

Moderated by Prof. Howie Tam.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Part of COMPACT's Global Community Engagement program's "Focus on Cambodia," commemorating the 45th anniversary of the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia.

Questions? [email protected]

Image: Event flyer with photo of dance teacher adjusting student.

03/26/2024

"DreadKin: Some thoughts on Contemporary Caribbean Literature" by Faith Smith, Marta F. Kauffman '78 Endowed Chair in African and African American Studies
April 8, 2024

Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Location: Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar International Center

Interested students, faculty, staff, and all members of the Brandeis community are invited to attend a public lecture by Dr. Faith Smith upon her installation as the inaugural incumbent of the Marta F. Kauffman '78 Endowed Chair in African and African American Studies.

Part of a larger project on Caribbean literary and visual cultural production, "DreadKin," Dr. Smith's lecture asks how recent novelists and artists are exploring issues of sovereignty, lineage, and the right to interiority and leisure. What are the spaces of desire and reverie that such texts reveal? And in reading for such themes, what are the risks of applying the questions and answers of previous generations?

Sponsored by the Office of the President.

Image: Faith Smith

03/26/2024

Remake, Resist, Rewind: Surviving the Horror Film
April 4, 2024

Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Virtual (Register) https://sites.google.com/brandeis.edu/imperiledbodies/schedule

Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Session 3 (Rescheduled).

Organized by Professor Brandon Callender, this session will host speakers Ashlee Blackwell, writer and producer of Horror Noire and founder of Graveyard Shift Sisters, and Justin Phillip Reed, poet and author of the hybrid collection With Bloom Upon Them And Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany. Engaging artists and scholars working at the intersections of black feminist and black q***r horror, it will discuss how the horror film genre can thematize, trigger, and inspire complex engagements with sexual violence.

Image: Brandon Callender

03/18/2024

Jackson Holbert Reading

March 19, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Rapaporte Treasure Hall

More info: https://www.brandeis.edu/english/events/index.html

Image: Event poster with picture of Jackson Holbert.

03/18/2024

Global Community Engagement presents Dr. Alexander Hinton speaking about "Perpetrators: Genocide and the Dark Side of Humanity"
March 20, 2024

Time: 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Location: Zinner Forum, Heller

Part of the Global Community Engagement Program’s Spring 2024 “Focus on Cambodia,” marking the 45th anniversary of the end of the Cambodian genocide.

More information: https://www.brandeis.edu/compact/programs/global-community-engagement/current-initiatives.html

Image: event poster with picture of Dr. Hinton.

03/15/2024

Ramie Targoff gives voice to women writers of the Renaissance in "Shakespeare's Sisters." -The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/14/arts/ramie-targoff-renaissance-women-writers/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results

Image: Professor Ramie Targoff (drawing)

"People are recovering all kinds of voices," says the Brandeis professor. "We’re changing what history looks like. And I’m honored to be a part of that."