English and Global Literatures

Upcoming Events:

• Sep 24
  

  Dealing with Literary Anitsemitism

  Time:  7:00pm

  Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of eleven books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World;and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

• Sep 30
  

  Harriet Clark in Conversation with Prof. Louise Yelin

  Time:  6:00pm

  Harriet Clark has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Wallace Stegner program. She was a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and is the winner of the 2023 Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for her short story “Descent.” Her debut novel, The Hill, which was published in 2026, tells the story of Suzanna Klein, a young girl whose mother, a political radical, was sentenced to prison for her role in a bank robbery when Suzanna was a baby. A novel about politics and prison life, among many other things, The Hill has been described in the New Yorker as “superb” and praised for its “lucidity” and “honesty and unillusioned wit.”

• Nov 9
  

  Dan Chiasson in Conversation with Prof. Monica Ferrell

  Time:  6:00pm

  Dan Chiasson is the author of five books of poetry, including Bicentennial (2014) and The Math Campers (2020), and a book of literary criticism. His recently published book of nonfiction, Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, was named one of Lit Hub’s most anticipated books of 2026 and was described in the New Yorker as “revelatory.” A longtime contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Chiasson is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wellesley College.