Events
English Department Events
Explore English's events including readings, lectures, screenings, and key academic milestones for the department, featuring visiting writers, faculty scholarship, and student work.
Winter/Spring 2026 schedule:
- March 3: Moseley Lecture "Reading the City" with Professor Barbara Black, 5:00 pm, Gannett Auditorium
- March 5: Deadline to submit Creative Writing Awards manuscript, 5:00 pm
- March 18: Literary Studies Event with Professor Xander Manshel, McGill University, author of 2026 Perkins Prize, Writing Backwards, 5:00 pm, Wyckoff Center
- March 20: CODA options information meeting with Professor Bozio, 2:30-3:30 pm, PMH 300
- March 20: Humanistic Inquiry Symposium with Skidmore faculty, 3:00-8:00 pm, TANG Museum.
- March 21: Humanistic Inquiry Symposium with Skidmore faculty, 8:30 am-6:30 pm, TANG Museum.
- March 23: Guest speaker Tim McMahon, Marquette Univ. Translating Ireland: The Irish Jesuits and Catholic Education in Colonial Australia, 4:30 pm, Emerson Auditorium.
- March 24: Professor Jamie Parra Film Screening “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” 6:00 pm, Somers Room, TANG Museum
- March 25: Professor Mark Mayer reading of About, Above, Around: 50 Prepositions, 6:00 pm, Northshire Bookstore
- March 26: Samantha Hunt, novelist, essayist and short-story writer, 5:30 pm, Surrey Williamson Inn
- March 27: Department Meeting, 2:30 pm, Zoom followed by Faculty Meeting at 3:30 pm
- April 3: Coffee Hour with Student Reps, English Majors, Minors, and Faculty, 11:30 am-12:30 pm, PMH 300
- April 17: Critical Futures Book Event with Professors Ruth McAdams and Eileen Sperry, 3:00 pm, Emerson Auditorium
- April 19: The Laureaute Poetry Series presents All the Growing Things 3:00 pm, TANG Museum, Malloy Wing.
- April 23: CW Advanced Projects Night, 5:30-8:30 pm, Murray Aikins Dining Hall, 2nd Floor
- April 24: Writing Awards Ceremony, 2:00-3:00 pm, PMH 300
- April 30: Academic Festival
- May 1: Department Meeting, 2:30 pm, PMH 304 followed by Faculty Meeting at 3:30
- May 13: Faculty Meeting, 10:00 am, Murray Aikins Dining Hall, 2nd Fl or Zoom
- May 13: Senior Major/Minor Party, 4:00-6:00 pm, Walt Whitman Brewery, 20 Lake Avenue