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Tue, 03/14/2023 - 4:10pm
Launch event for The Genius Of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies, a year-long partnership project by the University of Georgia and Texas Christian University on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the 1773 publication of Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This scholarly roundtable features speakers from TCU and UGA faculty in British Studies, American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, and related fields…
Wed, 01/26/2022 - 2:30pm
Interested in submitting your creative work to literary magazine but not sure how? Attend the Pop-up Literary Magazine Submission Workshop. We'll cover: ○ Identifying good markets for your work ○ Readying your manuscript for submission ○ And submission best practices This event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.  Please mask.
Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:52pm
Dr. Nora Benedict, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities in the Department of Romance Languages, will give a Zoom workshop on Tuesday November 9th, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. to discuss her recently published book, Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading (Yale UP 2021). Please email Susan Rosenbaum (srosenb@uga.edu) if you would like to receive a sample of the book beforehand and/or would…
Thu, 10/07/2021 - 10:35am
A presentation by UGA professors Ervan Garrison and Jim Wilson to an audience at Seminole State College in Seminole, Oklahoma, and open to our UGA audience as well.  Ervan Garrison’s presentation is titled “Tribal Homelands and Recovering Place through Remote Sensing & Marine Studies,” and Jim Wilson’s presentation is titled “Anompolichi: The Wordmaster and Living Cultural Sites.”  Professor Ervan Garrison is Professor of Anthropology and…
Thu, 10/07/2021 - 10:02am
University of Oklahoma Professor Joshua Nelson and University of Georgia Professor LeAnne Howe present about how Sequoyah’s life of many journeys inspired their film, Searching for Sequoyah, to be released on PBS stations in early November, as well as their ongoing research.   Presidential Professor Joshua Nelson is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty with Film & Media Studies, Native American Studies, and Women's &…
Wed, 12/02/2020 - 12:03pm
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe will participate in a talk about her coedited book Famine Pots: The Choctaw–Irish Gift Exchange, 1847–Present.  The event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 1 p.m. This event is being hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland in Austin and the American Conference for Irish Studies. The talk will be moderated by Naomi O’Leary from The Irish Times and will will explore the legacy of…
Wed, 02/28/2018 - 3:44pm
Join the graduate students of English 8300: Shakespeare's Histories and the Historiography of Race as they present conference-length versions of their final papers for their class at our annual Shakespeare's Birthday celebration.
Wed, 02/28/2018 - 3:29pm
Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, UGA) and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, UPVM), co-principal investigators of the Partner University Fund grant "Scene-Stealing/Ravir la Scène," are pleased to open to the public a work session on Shakespeare's Henry V, with faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral students from UGA and UPVM at the University of Georgia. Our event is scheduled to begin at 1:25 and end…
Thu, 02/22/2018 - 12:03pm
This informal meeting is designed for second year PhD students who are starting to think about their comprehensive exams, but is open to any PhD student or faculty member who wants more information on the new comprehensive exam system. Bring your questions and we'll get you answers.
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 3:19pm
TBD

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