Department of English

Author Meets Readers Session with Joy Harjo
October 6, 2022 at 7pm

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and is serving her second term as the 23rd US Poet Laureate. More Information

Location: Kingsbury Hall

Fall 2022 Guest Writers Series
Douglas Kearney

Reading at Finch Lane Gallery
Date: Thursday, September 15 | Time: 7:00pm MT

Colloquium at LNCO Room 3870
Date: Friday, September 16 | Time: 12:00pm MT

Douglas Kearney Fall 2022 Guest Writers Series
Terrance Hayes

Reading at SLC Public Library Nancy Tessman Auditorium
Date: Thursday, October 27 | Time: 7:00pm MT

Colloquium at LNCO Room 3870
Date: Friday, October 28 | Time: 10:30am MT

Douglas Kearney Fall 2022 Guest Writers Series
Susan Daitch

Reading at Finch Lane Gallery
Date: Thursday, November 3 | Time: 7:00pm MT

Colloquium at Finch Lane Gallery
Date: Friday, November 4 | Time: 12:00pm MT

Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Heather McGhee
November 17, 2022 at 7pm

Author of, "The Sum of Us" - Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public.

Location: College of Law Moot Courtroom

Author Meets Readers Session with Britt Wray
November 17, 2022 at 7pm

Author of, "Generation Dread" - Britt Wray is an author and leading researcher at the intersection of mental health and climate change.

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Tanner Talk with Kyle Whyte
November 17, 2022 at 7pm

Kyle Whyte is a philosopher and scholar whose work focuses on the problems and possibilities Indigenous peoples face regarding climate change, environmental justice, and food sovereignty.

Registration information coming soon

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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.

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Humanities Radio

From Shakespeare to video games, an English degree teaches valuable skills that translate to a variety of careers. Matt Potolsky, professor of English, discusses the diversity of the degree and how it’s more than just studying old books for Humanities Radio podcast.