Department of English and Creative Writing

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Submit to the Creative Writing Prizes!

Submissions are due on April 23, at 4 PM.
Three Faculty Members Win 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships

Joshua Bennett, Alexander Chee, and Tarek El-Ariss are among 184 award recipients.
Convergences: Mariame Kaba, Derecka Purnell, and Tongo Eisen-Martin

Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for the third iteration of Convergences.
Webinar on Ken Burns' Hemingway

Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for this panel on Ernest Hemingway.
Poetry Reading: Cleopatra Mathis and Joshua Bennett

Please join the English and Creative Writing Department on April 1 at 4:45 pm for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose Series featuring Cleopatra Mathis and Joshua Bennett.
New Review of Yanyi's The Year of Blue Water

Yanyi, the author of The Year of Blue Water, is teaching CRWT 40.13 at Dartmouth in the spring.
Convergences: Doreen St. Félix and Jordan McDonald '21

Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for Convergences: A Black Life and Letters Lecture Series on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Meetinghouse Reading Series: Creative Nonfiction on March 10

Please join us for the third reading in our winter series on March 10th, 2021 from 5-6 pm followed by a discussion on creativity during the pandemic, finding community in writing, and the future of literary journals.
Meetinghouse Reading Series: Fiction on March 3rd

Meetinghouse is excited to host a virtual reading and conversation with three fiction writers from our inaugural issue, Becky Mandelbaum, Alyssa Freeman-Moser, and Dartmouth's own Jordan McDonald. Please join us for the second reading in our winter series on March 3rd, 2021 from 5-6 pm followed by a discussion on creativity during the pandemic, finding community in writing, and the future of literary journals.
Meetinghouse: Poetry Reading on February 24

Please join us for a poetry reading on February 24, 2021 from 5-6 pm followed by a discussion on the writing life during the pandemic, finding writing community, and the future of literary journals.

Recent Publications

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Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865

Colleen Glenney Boggs

Oxford University Press, 2020.
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Brandon Bennett

Harvard University Press, 2020.
"Lacan and Race"

Azeen A. Khan

After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century, Mukherjee, A., ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018.
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

Jeff Sharlet

W.W. Norton, 2020

Events

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Apr 22

12:30PM
Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry Series: Dorothy Wang
Zoom

Dorothy Wang will talk about Pamela Lu's _Pamela: A Novel_
May 06

12:30PM
Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry Series: David Eng
Zoom

David Eng will give a talk about Asian American mental health
May 06

4:00PM
Todd McGowan (U of Vermont): Fantasizing Racism
Zoom

Discussion of the central role racism plays in the psychical and economic distribution of enjoyment by the author of Capitalism And Desire and Emancipation After Hegel.
May 18

12:30PM
Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry: Aldrin Valdez and Nhu Xuan Nguyen
Zoom

The two poets will give a reading; they will also discuss myth and interdisciplinary/hybrid art
May 25

12:30PM
Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry Series: Richard Fun and Alexandra Cuerdo
Zoom

The two documentary filmmakers will screen their work and discuss queer Asian futures
Jun 08

12:00AM
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Top Stories

Submit to the Creative Writing Prizes!

Three Faculty Members Win 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships

Convergences: Mariame Kaba, Derecka Purnell, and Tongo Eisen-Martin

Webinar on Ken Burns' Hemingway

Poetry Reading: Cleopatra Mathis and Joshua Bennett

New Review of Yanyi's The Year of Blue Water

Convergences: Doreen St. Félix and Jordan McDonald '21

Meetinghouse Reading Series: Creative Nonfiction on March 10

Meetinghouse Reading Series: Fiction on March 3rd

Meetinghouse: Poetry Reading on February 24

Recent Publications

Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

"Lacan and Race"

This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

Events