Past Events

On May 3rd, 2018, Joanna Ruocco reading from her body of work as part of the Creative Writing Reading Series. Joanna Ruocco is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University. She earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD...

On April 26th, 2018, Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English, Yale University, delivered the keynote: “‘Dreams Are Spoken Here’: Counter-Intuitive Economies and the Founding of New Orleans”.

On April 24th, 2018, Lily Hoang read from her body of work for the Creative Writer Reading Series. Lily Hoang is the author of five books of prose, including Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and A Bestiary (winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Non-Fiction Book...

On April 20th, 2018, CU Boulder English hosted a panel on Experimental Criticism with: Ashon Crawley ( Black Pentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility ), Sasha Steensen ( Gatherest, House of Deer , and other works), Jennifer Scappettone ( Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice ), and Brian Blanchfield ( Proxies: Essays Near Knowing , and other works).

On April 18th, 2018, CU Boulder celebrated National Poetry Month with an evening of Poetry. Students, staff, and faculty shared some of their favorite poems and why they feel poetry is as relevant and crucial as ever.

On April 17th, 2018, prolific, multi-genre novelist and short-story writer Stephen Graham Jones sat down with Michelle Dotter (publisher and editor-in-chief, Dzanc Books) to discuss editing, agents and publishing.

On April 16th, 2019, Dr. Kathleen Kennedy of Penn State Brandywine gave her guest lecture titled "Imperial History as Told in Coconuts" and answered a short Q & A afterwards.

On April 13th, 2018, the Work-in-Progress Series (WiP) of the 18th- & 19th-Century Studies Network presented John Stevenson, Professor of English, CU Boulder, “Twenty-eight Days Later: Elizabeth Canning and the Problem of Implausible Narrative" The “most famous criminal mystery of the eighteenth century” (DNB) concerned Elizabeth Canning, an 18-year old...

On April 12th, 2018, Carole Boyce Davies gave a guest lecture titled "Dis/locations and Caribbean Transnationality" and answered a short Q & A afterwards. Bob Marley's "Exodus" captures the logic of movement and in some ways reveals the Caribbean as a site of diaspora creation in multiple forms and from...

On April 6th, 2018, Christina Sharpe presented her guest lecture titled “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" and did a short Q&A afterwards. "In this original and trenchant work, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being , Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life...