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Preaching the Converted
New Books by English Faculty
Samantha Zacher’s recent book Preaching the Converted rigorously examines Old English homiletic rhetoric and poetics.
“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen and write.”Pearl S. Buck

Events

Current English Scheduling of Events

Spring 2009

› More Info February 6th & 7th Academic Freedom Conference
When: Friday,
Location: Africana Studies & Research Center
When: Saturday,
Location: Africana Studies & Research Center
February 20th Fiction Reading
When: Friday, 7:30 pm
Location: Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
  • Featuring:
  • melissa Bank
  • Junot Díaz
  • Julie Schumacher
February 20th English Department Round Table Discussion
When: Friday, 2:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • “Transitional Figures: Literary and Visual Representations of the Anglo-African in 18th Century Britain.”
  • Featuring:
  • Anita Nicholson
February 26th Fiction and Poetry Reading
When: Thursday, 4:30 pm
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
  • Featuring:
  • Lisa Steinman, Poetry
  • Emily Rosko, Poetry
  • Helen Shulman, Fiction
February 27th English Department Round Table Discussion
When: Friday, 2:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • “Dykes on Dykes: The Narration of West's Queer Pastoral”
  • Featuring:
  • Megan Graham
March 4th Cornell Professors Speak on Cornell Writers
When: Wednesday, 4:30 pm
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium
  • Roger Gilbert on A. Ammons and his influence on Alice Fulton and Kenneth McClane
    Molly Hite on Thomas Pynchon

    Mary Pat Brady on Manuel Muñoz and Loida Maritza Perez
March 6th & 7th Transrhetoric Conference
When: Friday,
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
When: Saturday,
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • Featuring:
  • Time and details TBA
March 26th Group Reading: Writers from the Ithaca Community
When: Thursday, 7:30 pm
Location: State Theatre of Ithaca
March 26th ‘Wrong Again’
When: Thursday, 4:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • Repetition, Exception, and Form in Shakespeare, Calderón, and Agamben
  • Featuring:
  • Philip Lorenz, Assistant Professor
March 27th English Department Round Table Discussion
When: Friday, 2:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • “Bound by Their Narrowing Perceptions: Sympathetic Bondage and Perverse Pity in Blake’s Book of Urizen”
  • Featuring:
  • Sarah Enron
April 2nd Book Publication Celebration & Reading
When: Thursday, 4:30 pm
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
  • Celebrating the publication of new books by Kenneth McClane, Jonathan Monroe, J. Robert Lennon and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
  • Featuring:
April 4th A Symposium on the work of Giogio Agamben
When: Saturday,
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • Presentations:
  • Kevin Attell, Cornell University
  • Steven DeCaroli, Goucher College
  • Leland de la Durantaye, Harvard University
  • Eleanor Kaufman, UCLA
  • Adam Thurschwell, Georgetown University Law Center
  • The event will include a morning session, and afternoon session, a rountable discussion, and a reception.
April 8th “‘The Baffling Swallow’: Gilbert White, Charlotte Smith, and the Limits of Nature
When: Wednesday, 4:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • Featuring:
  • Anne Mellor, Distinguished Professor of English, U
April 11th Graduate Student Conference
When: Saturday,
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • Time and details TBA
April 16th Fiction and Poetry Reading
When: Thursday, 4:30 pm
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
  • Featuring:
  • Stewart O’Nan, Fiction
  • Crystal Williams, Poetry
  • A. Manette Ansay, Fiction
› More Info April 17th & 18th Theory Reading Group Conference
When: Friday, 2:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • “Particularity, Exemplarity, Singularity”
  • Keynote Speaker:
  • Ian Balfour, York University
When: Saturday, 2:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
April 20th Selected Shorts
When: Monday, 7:00 pm
Location: Uris Auditorium
  • PRI’s celebrated Selected Shorts is coming to Cornell! Featured will be noted theatre artists reading from Cornell authors’ works.
April 23rd Poetry Reading
When: Thursday, 4:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
April 24th English Department Round Table Discussion
When: Friday, 2:30 pm
Location: English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
  • Featuring:
  • Steve Pinkerton, “Blasphemous Djuna Barnes”
May 3rd MFA Reading
When: Sunday, 2:00 pm
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium