April
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
All are welcome as we celebrate retiring faculty Jacqueline Wheeler and Peter Lehman. We'll also acknowledge outgoing Writing Programs director Shirley Rose, who will return to the faculty after 10 years of extraordinary...
Thursday, Apr. 4, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Neeb Hall (NEEB)
This modern English performance of the epic poem Beowulf is translated, performed, and directed by Chris Vinsonhaler and features ASU student actors.Chris Vinsonhaler is an assistant professor at the City University of New...
Friday, Apr. 5, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Join ASU's medieval literature experts in a discussion with Chris Vinsonhaler at Ross-Blakley Hall, room 196, on the ASU Tempe campus.Vinsonhaler is an assistant professor at the City University of New York (BMCC). She...
Friday, Apr. 5, 2019, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
The Interdisciplinary Committee on Linguistics at Arizona presents this workshop by Edward Finegan, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law at the University of Southern California.Discourse analysis (DA) is...
Friday, Apr. 5, 2019, 3-4:30 p.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
The Interdisciplinary Committee on Linguistics at Arizona State University presents Edward Finegan, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law at the University of Southern California, in the talk "Forensic...
Sunday, Apr. 7, 2019, 7 p.m.
Location: First United Methodist Church (215 E University Dr) Tempe, AZ
Arizona State University presents an evening of music featuring new works by female-identifying writers, composers, and performers based in Arizona.A reception will follow.The Arizona Women's Collaborative concert is presented by...
Monday, Apr. 8, 2019, 9 a.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Committee members are Dr. Jessica Early (chair), Dr. Anne Whitney, and Dr. Shirley Rose. :: ABSTRACT: This mixed methods study explores the work of five small writing communities formed within a university-based...
Monday Apr. 8, 2019, 11 a.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Committee members include: Simon J. Ortiz (Chair), James Blasingame, and Ron Broglio. :: ABSTRACT: The coyote of the natural world is an anthropomorphic figure that occupies many places within Southwestern Pueblo...
Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019, 10 a.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Committee members: Dr. Doris Warriner (Chair), Dr. Aya Matsuda, Dr. Matthew Prior. :: ABSTRACT: This study explores how collaboratively produced narratives in digital/online spaces help to grow and support a...
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice-Chair of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts at the University of Iceland, presents the lecture “The Poetic Sensorium and Form in the...
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 7 p.m.
Location: University Club (UCLUB)
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU invites all to celebrate the winners of the 57th annual Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Awards in Writing.Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 8 p.m.
Location: The Social Hall (715 S McClintock Dr) Tempe, AZ
Calling all lovers of poetry and prose! Join English's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program for the first semester of a special 8-part reading series featuring brand new work from ASU graduate students. Each reading...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2019, 10 a.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Committee members include: Deborah Clarke (chair), Christine Holbo, and Maureen Goggin. :: ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an examination of a modernist desire to construct future materiality via material language...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2019, 1 p.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Committee members: Elly van Gelderen (chair), Kathryn Pruitt, and Andrew Carnie. :: ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the precise relation between the domain of prosody and the domain of syntax. Two...
Monday, Apr. 15, 2019, 11:59 p.m.
Location: Submit via online instructions
The Department of English's High-Impact Internship Award will be given for the first time in spring 2019. Application deadline: April 15Students interested in non-profit, government, advocacy, or social service work greatly...
Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2019, 12-1 p.m.
Location: Piper Writers House (PWH)
The ASU Book Group's April 2019 reading selection is "When My Brother Was an Aztec" by Natalie Diaz. The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly from noon–1 p.m. in the Piper Writers House on...
Friday, Apr. 26, 2019, 8:30-10:30 a.m. and 1:30-4 p.m.
Location: Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL)
Students earning their Master of Arts in English degrees at ASU defend their final projects in this session.
