Department of English
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Anastasia Eccles: Cringingand the Novel
Thursday, February 20th, 5PM LNCO 3870 |
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Words of Love and Revolution:A Celebration ofNikki Giovanni and James BaldwinFebruary 25th, 2-3PM LNCO 2110 |
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Working Dog: Steamy DogThe graduate student reading series Friday, February 14th |
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“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
James Baldwin

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it... it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis

“...our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
bell hooks

“Act so that there is no use in a center.”
Gertrude Stein

“Silence creates its own violence.”
Jeff Vandermeer

“Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.”
N.K. Jemisin

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”
Maxine Hong Kingston

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.”
Oscar Wilde

“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”
Gene Wolfe

“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”
H.G. Wells
About the Department
The English Department is a community of readers and writers dedicated to critical and creative approaches to a complex world. We are students of story, lovers of language, scholars of the many worlds recorded and imagined in fiction. At the core of English is the work—and the play—of creativity: discovering new worlds, exploring new ways of thinking, and developing new ways of expressing yourself.
Learn More About the Department of EnglishWhy English?Calendar
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Feb 15
Saturday
12:30pm - 2pmJosé Zagal with the Environmental Storytelling RIG
Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
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Feb 15
Saturday
6:30pm - 8:30pmWorking Dog: Steamy Dog
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Feb 18
Tuesday
1pm - 1:15pmPie Day
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Feb 20
Thursday
5pm - 6pmSpeaker Series: Anastasia Eccles "Cringing in the Novel"
Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)