Events Calendar 2020-2021

Events Calendar 2020-2021

M.F.A. Virtual Guest Speaker, Marie-Helene Bertino — 6:05-7:30 p.m., April 15.
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English Student Awards and Sigma Tau Delta Induction — 4:00 p.m., April 16.

Student Scholarship Week: Celebrating the Research, Creative, and Service Accomplishments of MU Students
April 19-April 23, 2021.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad — 7:30 p.m., April 20.
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Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

English Graduate Symposium — 5:00 pm., April 28.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six — 7:30 p.m., May 11.
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Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

Past Events

Welcome 2021!
Meet and Greet: Graduate Faculty, New Students, Current Students — 3:30-4:30 p.m., January 22.
New Student Q&A — 4:30 p.m., January 22.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Raymond Carver’s What We Talk about When We Talk about Love — 7:30 p.m., January 26.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

M.A. Coffee Hours with Dr. Anwar Uhuru — 1:00-2:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 10.

Toni Morrison Day — Thursday, February 18.
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Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man — 7:30 p.m., February 23.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

M.F.A. Virtual Guest Speaker,  Ruth Awad — 6:05-7:30 p.m., February 24.

Scholarly Speaker Series, Hélène Quanquin, “Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830-1890: Cumbersome Allies.”  — 12:00 p.m., March 1.

Life After Monmouth Workshop Series: “How to Talk to Editors & Agents”, March 17 — 3:15 p.m.

M.A. Coffee Hours: Part Two with Dr. Anwar Uhuru — 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 26.

Participate in two upcoming events! Submit your original work to participate in the English Graduate Symposium and Threesis Competition. Submission deadline: Monday, March 29.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — 7:30 p.m., March 30.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

M.F.A. Virtual Guest Speaker, Wayétu Moore — 6:00-7:00 p.m., April 7.

M.A. Coffee Hours with Dr. Courtney Werner — 12:30-1:30 p.m., Monday, April 12.

Life After Monmouth Workshop Series: “Talking About Yourself Online & How It Can Help You in Real Life” facilitated by Monmouth alumna and Sigma Tau Delta member, Jennifer van Alstyne, April 14 — 3:15 p.m.

Fall 2020

SHSS Academic Welcome, 2:45 p.m., September 9.

Virtual Graduate Meet and Greet, 3:00 p.m., September 9.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox— 7:30 p.m., Sept. 15.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

M.F.A. Virtual Guest Speaker, Seth Fishman — 4:30 p.m., September 24

M.A. Coffee Hours with Dr. Heide Estes — 3:00 p.m., September 26

Free Write Happy Hour (Hosted by Alena Graedon) — 6:00-7:00 p.m., October 1.

Free Write Happy Hour (Hosted by Alex Gilvarry) — 6:00-7:00 p.m., October 8.

M.F.A. Virtual Guest Speaker, Megha Majumdar — 4:30 p.m., October 8.

M.A. Coffee Hours with Dr. Kenneth Womack — 3:00 p.m., October 14.

Thinking about Graduate School?
Life After Monmouth Workshop Series, — 3:15-4:15 p.m., October 14.

Virtual Open House, October 25.

Climate Crisis Teach-In, October 26-30
* “Faculty Research and Teaching in Humanities and Social Sciences,” Mary Kate Azcuy, Heide Estes, Golam Mathbor, Michael Phillips-Anderson, Karen Schmelzkopf — 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m., October 27.
https://www.monmouth.edu/school-of-science/2020-climate-crisis-teach-in/.

Seminar – CW Poetry (EN-609) Guest Poet, Aracelis Girmay — 7:30 p.m., October 27.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Madeline Miller’s Circe — 7:30 p.m., October 27.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

Sigma Tau Delta’s Mentorship Program Coffee Hour, 3:15-4:15 p.m., November 11.
Sigma Tau Delta

M.F.A. Virtual Guest Speaker, Sarah Gerard — 4:30 p.m., November 12.

Virtual Graduate Studies Open House — 10:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m., November 14.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Clare Beams’ The Illness Lesson — 7:30 p.m., November 17.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

M.A. Coffee Hours with Dr. Mihaela Moscaliuc — 1:00-2:00 p.m., November 18.

Life After Monmouth Workshop Series: “Thinking About Academic Conferences?” — 3:15 p.m., November 18.
Sigma Tau Delta

Free Write Happy Hour (Hosted by Kenneth Womack) — 6:00-7:00 p.m., November 18.

Scholarly Speaker Series, Dr. Magali Armillas-Tiseyra,”The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South.” — 2:30 p.m., November 20.

M.A. Coffee Hours with Dr. Patrick Love — 3:00-4:00 p.m., December 4.

Virtual Creative Writing Student Reading — 7:00 p.m., December 10.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Amor Towles’ A Gentleman In Moscow — 7:30 p.m., December 15.
Tuesday Night Book Club Series 2020-2021

Sigma Tau Delta’s Catsbury Park Fundraiser — December 14-22.

Spring 2020

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt— 7:30 p.m., August 11.
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

English Student Awards and Sigma Tau Delta Virtual Induction Ceremony — May 2020.

Summer Commencement, August 27 — Pollak Theatre

M.A. and M.F.A. Orientation, September 4 — 4:30 pm, Library, Rooms 101 and 102

Fall Convocation, September 6 — 12:00 pm, OceanFirst Bank Center

Alexandra Kleeman, September 17 — 4:30 pm, Wilson Auditorium
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Monmouth University Open House, October 13

Q&A with Dr. Daniel Weeks, Oct. 25 — 4:00 pm, English Lounge

Ghost Stories Reading on Oct. 29 — 7:00 pm, Withey Chapel

Life After Monmouth Workshop Series: “Thinking About Graduate School?”, Oct. 30 — 3:00 pm, Wilson 310

Ink & Electricity Lecture, Dr. Priya Joshi, October 30 — 5:00 pm, Wilson 104

Taije Silverman, November 18 — 4:30pm, Wilson Auditorium
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Life After Monmouth Workshop Series: “Thinking About Academic Conferences?”, Nov. 21 — 3:00 pm, Bey Hall 201

“Reading and Celebration with Melissa Febos, Mihaela Moscaliuc, and Michael Waters,” Dec. 11 — 6:30pm, words! Bookstore

Toni Morrison Day, February 18 — 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Wilson 104, Magill Commons 107, Library 101 & 102

Blind Date with a Book, March 4 — 10-4 p.m., Library
Sigma Tau Delta

Life After Monmouth Workshop Series: “How to Talk to Editors & Agents”, March 11 — Cancelled due to University closure.
Sigma Tau Delta

“Lives of the ‘Brow’: Autobiography, Taste, Ethics” by Dr. Max Cavitch, March 11 –Cancelled due to University closure.
Lowbrow, Middlebrow, Highbrow: Interventions in Cultural Studies Lecture

Jordy Rosenberg, POSTPONED
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, April 21, 2020.
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Student Scholarship Week 2020

Michael Imperioli, CANCELLED
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays — 7:30 p.m., May 12, 2020.
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides — 7:30 p.m., May 26, 2020.
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain— 7:30 p.m., June 23.
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale— 7:30 p.m., July 14.
Visiting Writers Series 2019-2020

2018-2019 Events