This panel contrasts how three historians of race and education are authoring digital book on the web, which raises provocative questions about the future of scholarly communication. Ansley Erickson ...

English and Medieval Studies DUGs 2nd Annual Halloween Soiree at the Annmary Brown Memorial. There will be readings from tales of horror and the supernatural by Brown professors, a performance by the ...

Professor Beth Taylor, Co-Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, moderates a panel of alumni veterans and family who discuss their memories from the Vietnam War. This event is sponsored by the Brown University Library, Brown Alumni Association, and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English.

Excerpts from the plays, songs mentioned in them, and other Elizabethan music will be performed on period instruments and with historic pronunciation. Presented by St. Stephen’s Church and Brown University ...

Brown University, The English-Speaking Union and the Folger Shakespeare Library invite secondary teachers to a dynamic, up-on-your-feet workshop on teaching Shakespeare’s language, the First Folio ...

Veteran “New York Times” reporter, William Rashbaum, will talk about covering the police and other criminal justice issues on Friday, April 22, 2016, from 3:00-5:30 pm in the Department of English, Room 130. This talk will take place during Tracy Breton’s Nonfiction Writing class, ENGL 1160F, Reporting Crime and Justice.

Professional biographer Kate Buford will offer a master class as part of Carol DeBoer-Langworthy’s Biography course ENGL1190C, April 21, 1-2:20 pm in Smith-Buonanno Hall, Rm. 206. Buford will discuss her award-winning “Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe” to illustrate the craft of telling a complicated life. Thorpe (1887-1953) was the greatest multi-sport athlete of modern times at the dawn of American organized sports. This event is open to the campus community.

Mark McGurl, Professor of English, Stanford University, is author of the acclaimed books “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” and “The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James.” His lecture assesses what it means to think of the rise of Amazon.com as a signal event in recent literary history. Through this framework, McGurl considers the interplay between media technology, market forces, and literature.

Friday April 15- 1:45pm-5:30pm Saturday April 16- 9am-4:30pm Pembroke Hall 305 172 Meeting Street, Providence Please see the Pembroke Center website for a detailed schedule. This two day conference ...

The Shakespeare Film Festival presents “Titus Andronicus,” dir. Julie Taymor (1999), on Sunday, April 10, at 7 pm in Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street. Anthony Hopkins stars ...

Anne-Lise François, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC, Berkeley, will present a lecture entitled “‘In the cowslips peeps I lye’: Rousseau, Clare, Climate Change and Telling the Time of Day” on March 21, 5:30 pm, Smith-Buonanno, Rm. 106. The talk asks what Romantic-period botanical writings can contribute to contemporary phenological study at a time when catastrophic climate change means the dissociation of former synchronies between pollinators and flowering plants.

The Shakespeare Film Festival presents “Othello,” dir. Janet Suzman (1987), on Sunday, March 13, at 7:00 pm in Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street. Starring noted South African ...

Shakespeare Film Festival presents its first screening: “Throne of Blood,” dir. Akira Kurosawa (1957), on Sunday, March 6, 7:00 pm in Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street. The ...