Events

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...

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....

English Department Colloquia

4:00 pm

Join us for a colloquium with Sarah Patterson, Marjorie Rubright, and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard.

Department Meeting

4:00 pm

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....

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.  ...

'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...

'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...

Gibson Lecture 2023: Annette Vee

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

Title: Automating Writing from Automata to AI...

'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...

English Graduate Organization Conference

(All day)

More information forthcoming

English Awards Event

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

More information forthcoming.

'Editing Sylvia Plath' with Karen Kukil

Online (Zoom)
5:00 pm

Five College Seminar in Book History...

English Department Colloquia

4:00 pm

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

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...

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...

HFA Senior Recognition Ceremony

Recreation Center
11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Senior Recognition Ceremony for HFA majors.