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September 25, 2018

Frankenstein at 200! Early Monster Movies

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In 1818, 20-year-old Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This fall, the Department of English marks the book's 200th anniversary with public readings, screenings...

September 26, 2018

Patricia Smith Reading

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The Creative Writing Program presents poet Patricia Smith. Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books,...

October 4, 2018

Frank Bidart & Maggie Nelson: In Conversation

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Known for his dramatic monologue poems and distinctive typography, Frank Bidart is the author of Half-light: Collected Poems (2017), an anthology of 50 years of acclaimed work for which he...

October 10, 2018

Adam Gopnik Reading

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A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik is the author of several essay collections and memoirs, most recently At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York (2017) and The...

October 18, 2018

Annie Rogers: Incandescent Alphabets: Language Transformations and Art in...

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Language changes in psychosis. Words become the floating signifiers of a mad Other who takes up a place in speech. Speech elements connect to nothing, have no meaning whatsoever, and...

October 19, 2018

Big 10 Emerging Scholar Michael Gadaleto

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Michael Gadaleto, a David Lowenstein student from Pennsylvania State University, was selected as a Big 10 Emerging Scholar and will share his work with the University of Minnesota through...

October 23, 2018

Frankenstein at 200! Monster Readings

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In 1818, 20-year-old Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This fall, the Department of English marks the book's 200th anniversary with public readings, screenings...

October 30, 2018

Yiyun Li Reading

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Yiyun Li is the author of the collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award. She's also published two...

October 31, 2018

Frankenstein at 200! Ghost Stories

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In 1818, 20-year-old Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This fall, the Department of English marks the book's 200th anniversary with public readings, screenings...

November 2, 2018

Frankenstein at 200! “The Rights of Monsters: Allegory and the Body Politic”

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In 1818, 20-year-old Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This fall, the Department of English marks the 200th anniversary with public readings, screenings, and...

November 5, 2018

Frankenstein at 200! The Monsters of Beowulf

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In 1818, 20-year-old Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This fall, the Department of English marks the book's 200th anniversary with public readings, screenings...

November 8, 2018

Campus Protests, Representation, and Educational Reform: John Wright, Jean O'...

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The civil rights struggles of the 1960s led to calls for the establishment of Afro-American and American Indian Studies programs at the University of Minnesota. In 1969 the activism of...

November 15, 2018

Julie Schumacher: The Shakespeare Requirement

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Julie Schumacher, Professor of English and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will read from and discuss her new novel, The Shakespeare Requirement. The novel takes place at...

November 29, 2018

Patricia Hampl: A Celebratory Reading

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The Department of English presents a celebration of Minnesota's own award-winning memoirist, author of such pioneering and acclaimed works as The Florist's Daughter, A Romantic Education,...

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