Writers in the Parlor- Marie Rutkoski
Monday, October 6, 12:00 p.m.
Barker Center - Thompson room
r.s.v.p to mgerber@fas by September 29

Poetry Reading
by Rae Armantrout,
Tuesday, October 7 at 6:00 p.m.
Barker Center - Plimpton room
This event is free and open to the public.

The Morris Gray Lecture Fall Term 2008
by Carl Phillips,
Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00 p.m.
Sackler Lecture Hall, Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
This event is free and open to the public.

The Tanner Lectures
by Sari Nusseibeh,
November 5 at 4:30 p.m. - Lowell Lecture Hall
Novermber 6 at 4:30 p.m. - Lowell Lecture Hall
November 7 at 10-12:00 p.m. - seminar at TBD
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information please write to:
tanner_lectures@harvard.edu

FAS Calendar

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Tea Stop with the Office of International Programs
Tuesday, October 7 at 4:00 p.m.
English department lounge

2008-2009 Concentration Calendar click here for pdf

Talk to an Adviser

The Secondary Field in English

Undergraduate Newsletter

Considering the English Concentration? Have questions? Find answers on the
Pre-concentrator FAQ page.

Guidelines for requesting Letters of Recommendation

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Colloquia Websites All the English Department colloquia meet regularly, and Harvard grad students should feel free to attend any or all of them with any degree of regularity, regardless of primary field(s) of interest.

NEWS & INFORMATION

Child Library
Visit the English Department's research library, offering an extensive collection of works from all areas and periods of English and American literature.

Harvard Humanities Faculty Services
HFS has a new website. They are available to provide a variety of class related services to FAS Humanities Senior Faculty members, ladder professors and preceptors.

The Harvard University Native American Program
in collaboration with Folklore and Mythology 126 and History and Literature 90o is hosting:
Singing the Nation Back Together: Native American Literary Aesthetics and the Political Imagination
a conversation with Daniel Heath Justice and Craig Womack.
Wednesday, October 8, at 5-7 p.m.
Barker Center - Thompson room

FACULTY NEWS, PUBLICATIONS, & CONGRATULATIONS

Lisa Brooks has recently published her first book The Common Pot. An open reception is to be held at the Barker Center as part of the book's release. More information is available here.

Christine Evans has been awarded the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, sponsored by the Women and Theatre Program at ATHE (American Theatre in Higher Education). The award was in recognition for her work TROJAN BARBIE: A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides' Trojan Women.

Katherine Vaz is the winner of the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, which means her new collection, STORIES FROM THE PORTUGUESE, will be published in Fall, 2008.  Her award-winning book was selected out of 1200 national submissions.

Stephen Greenblatt takes students back to 17th century with 21st-century technology.

Congratulations to Daniel Shore, winner of the James Holly Hanford Award given by the Milton Society of America for the distinguished Milton essay of 2006.