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Mar 30, 2023

Daniel Handler on Building Your Own Canon

Zoom
1:15 pm

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, will be visiting UMass in a Zoom session. Introduced by MFA for Poets and Writers candidate Nate Zachar, with Edie Meidav's creative writing class, undergraduate...
Mar 31, 2023

Teaching Writing in the Age of ChatGPT

Zoom
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

On Friday, March 31, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will host a workshop, “Teaching Writing in the Age of ChatGPT” via Zoom....
Apr 4, 2023

HFA "Five at Four" April 4

Amherst Room, 10th floor, Campus Center
4:00 pm

"Continuing the Conversation on Interdisciplinary Collaboration"...

English Department Colloquia


4:00 pm

Join us for a colloquium with Sarah Patterson, Marjorie Rubright, and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard.
Apr 11, 2023
Apr 13, 2023
Colson Whitehead

Troy Lecture 2023: Colson Whitehead

Campus Center Auditorium, 1st Floor Campus Center
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

The Troy Committee would like to announce that the English Department will host, for the 2022-2023 Troy lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, Colson Whitehead....
Apr 14, 2023

Reading with Donika Kelly and Melissa Febos

Campus Center 163c
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Please join award-winning poets and writers, Donika Kelly and Melissa Febos for a reading and craft discussion on April 14th at 4pm in Campus Center 163c.  ...
Apr 20, 2023
Headshot of Bruce Holsinger in front of a stone wall

'Books, Beasts, and Biomes: The Many Lives of Parchment' with Bruce Holsinger

South College Room 470
5:00 pm

Five College Seminar in Book History...
Apr 21, 2023
Headshot of Melissa Sanchez speaking

'Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading' with Melissa Sanchez

The Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
4:30 pm

Dan S. Collins Lecture...
Apr 25, 2023
Annette Vee

Gibson Lecture 2023: Annette Vee

South College E470
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Title: Automating Writing from Automata to AI...
Apr 27, 2023
Headshot of Beth Bouloukos

'Amherst College Press and open access,' with Beth Bouloukos and Hannah Brooks-Motl

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
5:00 pm

Five College Seminar in Book History...
Apr 29, 2023

English Graduate Organization Conference


(All day)

More information forthcoming
May 2, 2023

English Awards Event

Main Hall, Old Chapel
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

More information forthcoming.
May 4, 2023

'Editing Sylvia Plath' with Karen Kukil

Online (Zoom)
5:00 pm

Five College Seminar in Book History...
May 9, 2023

English Department Colloquia


4:00 pm

Join us for a colloquium with Gretchen Gerzina, Laura Furlan, and TBD.
May 12, 2023

Masters Celebration

Mullins Center
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A special Masters Celebration will be held on Friday, May 12 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Mullins Center. Graduate students who have earned a master’s degree will have their names called and walk across...
May 26, 2023

Commencement

McGuirk Alumni Stadium
(All day)

The university is pleased to announce that it has re-envisioned this year’s Commencement so the campus can celebrate the entire Class of 2023—both undergraduate and graduate students—at one...
May 27, 2023

2023 Senior Breakfast

South College Atrium
9:00 am

Senior Breakfast at 9am in the South College Atrium.

HFA Senior Recognition Ceremony

Recreation Center
11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Senior Recognition Ceremony for HFA majors.