The Stories We Loved in 2025 Explore the standout CLA stories of 2025—from student success and faculty research to alumni impact and community partnerships.
Meet Assistant Professor Tosin Gbogi The literary scholar, linguist, and poet just published a book about Nigerian hip-hop.
Meet Assistant Professor Beatrice Bradley The new faculty member is writing a book on early modern writers and “the erotics of sweat."
Kathryn Nuernberger on Her Lyric Essay Collection HELD The professor’s sixth book juxtaposes symbiotic mutualisms and grief around climate change.
Bringing Literature to Life Twin Cities high school students meet a celebrated writer through the College in the Schools Literature Program.
In-Person Event, January 21, 2026 Jack Zipes, (University of Minnesota Emeritus) Presents: Never-Ending Tales: Antisemitism, Jewish Creative Resistance, and a Literature of Hope This lecture will demonstrate how Jewish folk narratives and fantasy writing between 1870 and the 1930s, a period in which Jewish and especially Yiddish literature blossomed…
In-Person Event, February 25, 2026 Reality TV Nation: How Swinging Wives Explain America Reality TV Nation: How Swinging Wives Explain America
In-Person Event, March 19, 2026 Aisha Sabatini Sloan Reading The Edelstein-Keller series presents the author of Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit.
In-Person Event, March 24, 2026 The Religion of AI Observed: Reflections on a Season of Revival The Religion of AI Observed
In-Person Event, March 26, 2026 First Books Reading Alums Emily Bright, Jordan K. Casomar, Kristin Collier, John LaPine share their debuts.
