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Upcoming Events
| Monday, February 13, 2012 |
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"In the Beginning," Senior Seminar open to all creative writing majors 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM CAS Gallery The University of Miami MFA in Creative Writing is pleased to welcome Professor Peter Selgin as our Distinguished Writer-in-Residence during the week of February 13th-17th. Professor Selgin will be holding a special senior seminar, "In the Beginning," one-on-one conferences with 15 graduating creative writers and a public reading of his creative works of fiction and non-fiction. View Distinguished Writer-in-Residence 
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| Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
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A Reading featuring Peter Selgin Free and open to the public. 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM CAS Gallery University of Miami Creative Writing presents Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Peter Selgin. View Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
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| Friday, February 17, 2012 |
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Writers' Salon with Peter Selgin Free and open to the public. 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM Books & Books, Coral Gables A reading/discussion with author Peter Selgin on his newest work, and specifically on the roles of atmosphere and setting in fiction. The reading will be followed by a Q & A with the author moderated by University of Miami MFA in Creative Writing student Benjamin Caplan. View Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
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Past Events
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Publishing in Caribbean Studies: A Workshop with Cathie Brettschneider, Humanities Editor at the University of Virginia Press
Sponsored by the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies hosts book launch featuring Raphael Dalleo and Faith Smith
Sponsored by the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University
Saturday, January 14, 2012
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series: Words are Mightier! UM-VONA Faculty Reading
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Polyglot Writers: A Reading Series on Writing Across Languages Featuring Nathalie Handal and Ishion Hutchinson
Writers' Salon
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Polyglot Writers: A Reading Series on Writing Across Languages
Featuring Nathalie Handal and Ishion Hutchinson
Friday, November 4, 2011
UM MFA Alumni: A Night of Fine Arts & Prose
Reception and Reading
Thursday, October 13, 2011
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features Poet Emma Trelles
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Polyglot Writers: A Reading Series on Writing Across Languages Featuring Cristina Garcia and John Murillo
Writers' Salon
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Polyglot Writers: A Reading Series on Writing Across Languages
Featuring Cristina Garcia and John Murillo
Friday, August 26, 2011
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features the Hialeah Haikus
Friday, April 29, 2011
2011 Spring Graduate Symposium
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Crissa Jean Chappell, Tom Cavanagh, Hayes Roth
An interactive panel discussion with three successful undergraduate alumni
Friday, April 15, 2011
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features Mangrove Journal Launch
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Saturday, March 26, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Terrence Cheng
Community Workshop
Friday, March 25, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Terrence Cheng
Master Class
Friday, March 25, 2011
English Faculty Colloquium, Patricia Saunders
Friday, March 25, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Terrence Cheng
Reading
Friday, March 11, 2011
USpeak Special Event: The MFA Reading Series
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Friday, March 4, 2011
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features Movie Telling Night: Poets Redub Famous Films
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Chantel Acevedo
Community Workshop
Friday, February 18, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Chantel Acevedo
Master Class
Friday, February 18, 2011
The Goran Reading Series, Chantel Acevedo
Reading
Friday, January 28, 2011
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features Poet Rita K. Wong
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Friday, December 3, 2010
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features Asia Davis
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Friday, November 12, 2010
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features UM Professor and Chair of Political Science, Fred Frohock
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The Goran Reading Series, Paul Perry
Community Workshop
Friday, October 22, 2010
The Goran Reading Series, Paul Perry
Master Class
Friday, October 22, 2010
The Goran Reading Series, Paul Perry
Reading
Thursday, October 21, 2010
English Faculty Colloquium, David Luis-Brown
"Cosmopolitanism and the Conundrum of Race in a Cuban Antislavery Novel: The Sun of Jesus del Monte by Andres Avelino de Orihuela"
Friday, October 8, 2010
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features All Star UM Creative Writing Alumni
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Friday, September 24, 2010
USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series kicks off with Geoffrey Philp
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and UM Auxiliary Services
Saturday, September 11, 2010
The Goran Reading Series, Michelle Richmond
Community Workshop
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Goran Reading Series, Michelle Richmond
Master Class
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Goran Reading Series, Michelle Richmond
Reading
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Zack Bowen Memorial Service
Friday, April 30, 2010
2010 Spring Graduate Symposium
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York, UK
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Lyric Hybrid: A Dialog Featuring Creative Writing Program Faculty
Thursday, April 1, 2010
English Faculty Colloquium: John Paul Russo, "Purple and Bronze Are the Colors of Apocalypse: Jorie Graham and John Ashbery"
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
R. Zamora Linmark presents "Prime Time Apparitions"
Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami Reading Series
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jane Alison presents "The Sisters Antipodes"
Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami Reading Series
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Mia Leonin presents "Havana and Other Missing Fathers"
Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami Reading Series
Friday, November 20, 2009
Barrett Watten presents "Nonsite Parataxis: Ulf Stolterfoht's 'Fachsprachen' and John Ashbery's 'Europe'"
Friday, November 20, 2009
English Faculty Colloquium: Mihoko Suzuki, "Daughters of Coke: Women and Legal Discourse in Civil War England"
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg lectures on Joseph's Dream in the Book of Genesis
Thursday, October 29, 2009
English Faculty Colloquium: Anthony Barthelemy, "Out of the Classroom into the Streets: Ovid's Metamorphosis"
Saturday, October 10, 2009
David Luis-Brown presents "Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States"
Presented in collaboration with the Center of the Humanities at the University of Miami
Friday, October 2, 2009
USpeak: Open Verse and Story Performance Series
Featuring Adrian Castro, poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist known for his rhythmic Afro-Latino style.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki present "The Rule of Women in Modern Europe"
Presented in collaboration with the Center of the Humanities at the University of Miami.
Friday, May 1, 2009
2009 Spring Graduate Symposium
Thursday, April 23, 2009
English Faculty Colloquium: Margaret Marshall, Associate Professor of English
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Mangrove Undergraduate Reading
Featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation reading from authors published in the print issue of Mangrove
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Jonathan Lamb, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University: "Character, Person, and the Fictionality of the Novel"
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Milton Alive at 400: Samson Agonistes and Religious Violence
A Two-Day Symposium Co-Hosted by the University of Miami and FIU
Friday, November 21, 2008
English Faculty Colloquium: Kathryn Freeman, Associate Professor of English
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Lecture by Patricia Saunders, Assistant Professor of English
Thursday, October 16, 2008
English Faculty Colloquium: Tim Watson, Assistant Professor of English
Monday, October 13, 2008
A Lecture by Annie Paul
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Friday, April 11, 2008
English Faculty Colloquium: Jeffrey Shoulson, Associate Professor of English
Friday, April 11, 2008
2008 Spring Graduate Symposium
A student symposium organized by the English Graduate Organization
Thursday, April 10, 2008
2008 Spring Graduate Symposium
A student symposium organized by the English Graduate Organization
Thursday, November 15, 2007
English Faculty Colloquium: Tassie Gwilliam, Associate Professor of English
"Acting Badly: Female Performance in Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela; or Feign'd Innocence Detected"
Saturday, November 3, 2007
The Asian Experience in the Caribbean and the Guyanas: Labor and Migration, Literature and Culture
A Caribbean Literary Studies Conference
Friday, November 2, 2007
The Asian Experience in the Caribbean and the Guyanas: Labor and Migration, Literature and Culture
A Caribbean Literary Studies Conference
Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Asian Experience in the Caribbean and the Guyanas: Labor and Migration, Literature and Culture
A Caribbean Literary Studies Conference
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Chinese Restaurants: On the Islands, a film directed by Cheuk C. Kwan
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Graduate Student Theory Reading Group
Monday, October 15, 2007
Robert Zaller, "Obedience, Loyalty, Dissent, and Resistance: The Response to Command in Early Modern England"
Friday, September 21, 2007
A seminar with Judith Halberstam
Utopian and Anti-Utopian Trends in Queer Theory
Friday, September 21, 2007
Publication seminar for graduate students
Thursday, September 20, 2007
A Lecture by Judith Halberstam, "Animating Queer Revolt"
Thursday, April 26, 2007
English Faculty Colloquium: Peter J. Bellis, Associate Professor of English
"Keeping Ragged Dick in Circulation: Horatio Alger and the Economics of City Space"
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
A Reading by Adrian Castro and Rita Wong
Hosted by the Department of English and the UM Bookstore
Saturday, April 14, 2007
2007 Spring Graduate Symposium
A student symposium organized by the English Graduate Organization.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Laurence Breiner, Professor of English, Boston University: "Jamaican Precursors of 'Orature' Poetry"
Professor Breiner teaches Caribbean, postcolonial, and 17th-century literatures in the English and African American Studies departments at Boston University. He is the author of...
Thursday, March 29, 2007
"Race, Faith, and Sexuality"
"Race, Faith, and Sexuality" by Dwight A. McBride, Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies and Professor of English and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Thursday, March 8, 2007
English Faculty Colloquium: Ranen Omer-Sherman, Associate Professor of English and Gabelli Senior Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences
"‘on the verge of a long-craved intimacy’: Orientalist Distance and Proximity Between Jews & Arabs in A.B. Yehoshua’s The Liberated Bride"
Friday, December 1, 2006
Queering the Straight (?) Canon from Early Modern to Postmodern
A Mini-Symposium of the Department of English Graduate Program
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Miami Book Fair: Diane Goodman and M.Evelina Galang
Diane Goodman on The Plated Heart; M. Evelina Galang on One Tribe
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Miami Book Fair: A.Manette Ansay
A. Manette Ansay on Blue Water
Thursday, November 16, 2006
An Afternoon with Fiction Writer Sabina Murray
Fiction Reading
Thursday, November 9, 2006
English Faculty Colloquium: "The Spaces of Conjure: Fiction, Ethnography, and Diaspora Time"
Lindsey Tucker, Professor of English
Thursday, November 2, 2006
"Lanyer and Milton on Liberty"
By Susanne Woods
Friday, October 13, 2006
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Author of Wizard of the Crow
Monday, October 9, 2006
Poet and Multimedia Artist: Edwin Torres
Monday, November 28, 2005
The Creative Writing Program Presents: Jason Nelson
Monday, October 31, 2005
The Creative Writing Program Presents: Lili Bita
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