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  • Small Island

    Pollak Theatre

    Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England. The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK. A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in London in this timely and moving story.

  • Image shows drawing of Halloween-decorated pumpkins

    Graduate English Meet-Up

    Withey Chapel – the Great Hall

    A goosebump inducing evening of perfect readings for the season. Enjoy spooky readings of the season from faculty members and students. Meet and mingle with other Graduate students. For more information, contact Michele McBride at mmcbride@monmouth.edu.

  • Photo Image of Artwork for Ink and Electricity series event

    Ink & Electricity Lecture Series

    The Great Hall -104

    This annual lecture series brings top scholars in the fields of digital humanities, media studies, the history of the book, print culture, and children’s literature to Monmouth University every fall. STRANGER THAN FICTION: THE NOVEL IN WEB 2.0 A Talk by Dr. Priya Joshi Professor of English Temple University Fan sites, new writing platforms, and […]

  • Photo of author Toni Morrison with one of her more famous quotes: This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

    Toni Morrison Day

    Join us for a celebration of the life and works of Toni Morrison: author, activist, academic, and Nobel Laureate. These events are free and open to the public. For questions or additional information, please contact Professor Linda Sacks at lsacks@monmouth.edu. Sponsored by the Department of English, the Guggenheim Memorial Library and the Honors School. Schedule […]

  • Photo of promotional image for Lives of the ‘Brows’: Autobiography, Taste, Ethics

    Cancelled: Lives of the ‘Brows’: Autobiography, Taste, Ethics

    Bey Hall 222

    Everyone loves a good autobiography, from high art to lowbrow tell-alls of gossipy celebrity. Come hear expert guest speaker Dr. Max Cavitch talk about what it all means– for book lovers, aspiring writers, English majors, and the humanities.

  • Advertisement for the Intersection Faculty Book Club discussion on September 11, 2020

    The Intersection Faculty Book Club Summer Book Selection Discussion

    Save the Date to Discuss The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy on Friday, September 11 at 4:30 p.m. Now more than ever it is important for us to stay connected and find comfort in togetherness. We will gather together via Zoom to discuss the novel. Zoom invite will be sent closer to the […]

  • Photo of book cover for Clare Beams’ The Illness Lesson

    Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Clare Beams’ The Illness Lesson

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Clare Beams’ The Illness Lesson. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required

  • Photo image of book cover of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

    Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow and joining the conversation will be the special guest host Anika Chapin. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required

  • Image from Raymond Carver’s book titled What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

    Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Raymond Carver’s What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

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    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s book is Raymond Carver’s What We Talk about When We Talk about Love. In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required

  • Photo of book cover from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book’s nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood”, before retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required