Events

Sunday, 31 March 2024
  • Women's History Month (March 1-31)

    Sunday, 31 March 2024

Monday, 1 April 2024
  • National Poetry Month (April 1-30)

    Monday, 1 April 2024

    Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Various events are held throughout the month by the Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations.

Friday, 12 April 2024
  • The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art, edited by Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch

    Friday, 12 April 2024

    The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Read more.

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
  • National Poetry Month (April 1-30)

    Tuesday, 30 April 2024

    Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Various events are held throughout the month by the Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations.

Friday, 17 May 2024
  • Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology, edited by Judith G. Miller with Sylvie Chalaye

    Friday, 17 May 2024

    Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case; Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing) alongside contemporary works questioning diasporic identity and cultural connections (Koffi Kwahulé’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Penda Diouf’s Tracks, Trails, and Traces…). Read more.

Friday, 14 June 2024
  • Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751, by Dayne C. Riley

    Friday, 14 June 2024

    Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—recognized the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables—and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness—in their work. Read more.