Upcoming events
A peek at the Department’s next few months
Posted 12/04/07• U.Va. at the MLA
If you’re attending the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in Chicago this year, we warmly invite you to drop by the English Department’s Cash Bar, Saturday December 29th 5.15-6.30 pm, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Regency Ballroom C. Take a break from the massed hordes of the profession, catch up with old friends, and raise a glass to our current crop of excellent job-seekers.
• Lecture by Lisa Lowe, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego, “An Ethics of Reckoning: Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life,” February 29, 2008, time and place to be announced.
• The English Department’s Graduate Student Conference: the theme will be “Thoughts that Matter,” March 13-14, 2008, and the keynote speaker will be Bill Brown, Professor of English at the University of Chicago
• The Camille Robinson Hess Lecture: Nancy Armstrong, Professor of English Brown University, “Gender Must be Defended,” April 17, 2008: time and place to be announced
