The Department of English was one of the first departments at the University of Minnesota (est. 1851). We continue to be a leader in literature, language, and literacy education. Our English@Minnesota Writer series is free and open to the public.
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- Location:
- Minneapolis, MN, 55455
- Phone:
- 612-625-3363
- Mon - Fri:
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
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Anne Carson, Fall 09 Joseph Warren Beach Lecturer in LiteratureCreated about 2 months ago
Maxine Hong Kingston, Fall 09 Esther Freier Endowed LecturerCreated about 2 months ago
Events
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- Adam Hochschild
Weisman Art Museum
Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30pm - Anne Carson
Coffman Union Theater
Sunday, October 18 at 4:00pm - Adam Zagajewski
Twin Cities Book Festival/ MCTC
Saturday, October 10 at 12:00pm - Maxine Hong Kingston
Ted Mann Concert Hall
Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30pm - Jim Shepard
Coffman Memorial Theater
Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pm
University of Minnesota English Langston Hughes + professors John Wright and Alexs Pate + poet J. Otis Powell! + cake + students + you = a festive 50th anniversary celebration of Hughes' Selected Poems, with readings, translations, music, and refreshments. This Friday, December 4, at 7 pm, in Lind Hall 150: "Take Harlem's heartbeat, Make it a drumbeat...."
University of Minnesota English Join us to hear journalist Adam Hochschild read from his work 7:30 pm Tuesday November 17 at the Weisman Museum. He co-founded Mother Jones magazine and is the author of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. FREE!
University of Minnesota English Are you a recent Department of English BA graduate or current undergraduate? Nominate an outstanding professor for the Ruth Christie Distinguished Teacher Award.
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Each year the English Department invites upper division students and recent English B.A. graduates to nominate English professors for two distinguished teaching awards:
University of Minnesota English Poet and scholar Anne Carson visited the Department of English October 16-19, visiting with graduate students and faculty and presenting, with dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Marcie Munnerlyn, "Possessive Used as Drink (Me)" and "Bracko." Photos by Molly Sutton Kiefer.
University of Minnesota English The author of The Woman Warrior and China Men visited the Department of English September 29 through October 2, visiting with undergraduate and graduate students and giving a public lecture. Photos by Molly Sutton Kiefer.
University of Minnesota English Professor and novelist Charles Baxter hosts the second annual Benefit for Hunger Reading October 27 at 8 pm in Coffman Union Theater (300 Washington Ave. S.E., Mpls.). With Patricia Hampl, Ray Gonzalez, Madelon Sprengnether, Michael Dennis Browne, and M.J. Fitzgerald. Free with a suggested donation. Benefits Second Harvest Heartland food shelf.
University of Minnesota English This Sunday afternoon, our first dance event! Poet and translator Anne Carson performs "Bracko" (her Sappho translations) and "Possessive Used as Drink (Me): A Lecture in the Form of 15 Sonnets" with two dancers from Merce Cunningham Dance Company. For free! October 18, 4 pm, Coffman Union Theater, 300 Washington Ave. ...S.E., Mpls. No tickets necessary. Join us!
University of Minnesota English Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Carson, Richard Powers. . . If you would like to be invited to Department of English author events and receive reminders, please friend "Minnesota English"!
University of Minnesota English English@Minnesota, the magazine for English alumni, seeks alumni news. What are you doing these days? Keep us up to date with an email to englmaj@umn.edu. Include your degree and graduation year!
University of Minnesota English Five current or recently graduated English BAs contributed to the August-September issue of Alive Magazine, a publication for young women: 2009 graduates Allie Riley, Regan Smith, and Derek Swart and undergraduate Meghan Hanson, along with 2009 graduate Jamie Joslin Millard, Alive's development director. All served as ...2009 Ivory Tower staff save Riley, who published a poem in the latest Ivory Tower.
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University of Minnesota English In 2001 the Esther Freier Endowed Lecture in Literature series was inaugurated through the Department of English. Thanks to the generosity of Esther Freier, a University of Minnesota professor of medical technology until 1991, two award-winning literary authors visit the Department each year. In fall 08 novelist Junot ...Diaz talked with English professor Evelyn Ch'ien. Photos by Mollly Sutton Kiefer.
University of Minnesota English In 2001 the Esther Freier Endowed Lecture in Literature series was inaugurated through the Department of English. Thanks to the generosity of Esther Freier, a professor of medical technology until 1991, two award-winning literary authors visit the Department each year. In spring 09, poet Louise Gluck read from her then forthcoming collection, A Village Life.
University of Minnesota English Every year, MFA candidates in our Creative Writing Program travel north for an idyllic weekend lakeside. Here are some photographs from last fall's retreat, taken by MFA candidate Molly Sutton Kiefer.
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University of Minnesota English The co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. The poet the New Yorker turned to after 9/11. A writer feted then arrested at the White House. All visiting English this fall! See our 2009 English@Minnesota Writer series under events.
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"Thanks so much for another wonderful evening! Thanks too for maintaining your mailing list so well, so I get to hear and meet authors from everywhere!"
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University of Minnesota English discussed What prize-winning authors would you recommend for English@Minnesota Writers Series? on the University of Minnesota English discussion board.
