Amy Hassinger will give a reading of her work Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 4:30 PM in the Wren Room, Sanborn House. A reception with students and faculty to follow.
Gregory Pardlo will give a reading of his work on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 4:30 PM in the Wren Room, Sanborn House. A reception with students and faculty to follow.
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[more]From Dartmouth News, September 29, 2016
Marlon James, left, Marjane Satrapi, and Jonathan Franzen are among the writers and artists visiting campus this year in the Leslie Center for the Humanities’ speaker series.
Iranian-born graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, will be on campus Oct. 6 to give a public talk at 4 p.m. in 105 Dartmouth Hall. She will meet with students in Occom Commons immediately afterward.
Satrapi...
[more]The Occom Circle seeks to collect, preserve, and enhance the accessibility of Indigenous archival materials. In celebration of its official launch, an international group of scholars, librarians, activists, storytellers, and digital humanities practitioners will explore how digital archives can serve Indigenous communities and reconfigure history and culture. This symposium will include two plenary panels, a keynote...
[more]Alexander Chee will be teaching creative writing courses English 80 and 87.04 during fall term and English 83 during winter term.
Vievee Francis will be teaching English...
[more]Here’s the link to read the New York Times Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/sports/alexi-pappas-track-star-veers-f...
Here’s a link to the CW event on the Dartmouth events calendar:
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=39293&listing=1#.VyzGe6J6oUs
"Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two actors from his King’s Men troupe compiled his greatest hits into a collection known as the First Folio—36 plays, from The Tempest to Cymbeline, that form the core of what we traditionally think of when we think of Shakespeare. Of the 750 copies printed of the First Folio, less than a third survive...And one, given to the College as part of a bequest from Allerton Hickmott, Class of 1917, and his wife, Madelyn, is the second-most...
[more]The English department at Dartmouth presents the annual William W. Cook lecture Afro-Pessimism & the
Paradox of Affirmation, Thursday, April 21, 4:00PM, Sanborn House.
Cynthia Huntington, a professor of English and creative writing, and Darrin McMahon, the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor in the Department of history, have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim fellowships. Click here.
The 2017 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony will be in Sanborn Library at 4:30 PM on May 11, 2017.