College of Arts and Sciences

Murdered but not Silenced: Rosa Luxemburg for the 21st Century
Saturday, April 6 2019, Fleming Museum 101, 2:00 pm
Co-hosted with the Will Miller Social Justice Lecuture Series

Free and open to all, but please register on eventbrite

16th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference

Friday - Saturday, April 5 - 6 2019

Co-hosted with Tolkien in Vermont

Nonfiction Reading with author Lia Purpura

Friday, April 5 2019, Fleming Museum, 12:00 - 1:00 pm

2nd Annual English Department Symposium
Thursday, April 4th 2019, Location TBA

English Dept Symposium - Workshop: How to Present at a Conference
Monday, March 18th 2019, in John Dewey Lounge, 6:00 pm

English Dept Symposium - Abstract and Creative Proposal Submission Deadline
Monday, March 4th 2019, email your 200 word abstract/proposal to Julie.Gundersen@uvm.edu

The Painted Word Poetry Series: Stephanie Burt
Wednesday, February 27 2019, Fleming Museum 204 (Marble Court), 6:00 pm
Co-hosted with the Fleming Museum of Art
Facebook event

Kevin Young Lecture, Brown: Adventures in Being
Thursday, February 21 2019, in the Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, 4:00 pm
Facebook event

English Dept Symposium - Workshop: How to Write an Abstract
Monday, February 11th 2019, in John Dewey Lounge, 6:00 pm

Mary Lou Kete Full Professor Lecture: Vermont's Lucy Terry Prince: Black Mother of the Republic
Wednesday, February 13th 2019, in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, 4:30 pm

Info Session: Literary London
Monday, December 3rd 2:00 - 3:00pm in John Dewey Lounge, 325 Old Mill

An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Wednesday, November 7th from 5:00 - 6:30pm in the Ira Allen Chapel

Words, Pictures, and Ragnarok: Comics as the Trickster's Tool with Guest Speaker Jason Lutes
Thursday, September 27th from 4:00 - 5:30pm in the Davis Center

English & FTS Majors and Minors BBQ
Monday September 24th at 4:30pm on the Royall Tyler Theatre Plaza

Podcast Storytelling: Stories From Vermont (Presented by the Reporting & Documentary Storytelling Project)
Thursday, September 20th 2018 at 4pm in the Marsh Room in Billings Library

Moustafa Bayoumi Lecture
Thursday, September 6th 2018 in the Davis Center Livak Ballroom (room 417/419)

Event Archives

2018 Commencement Ceremony
Sunday, May 20th on the University Green

Graduate College Commencement Ceremony
Saturday, May 19th from 12:30 - 2:30pm in the Multipurpose Facility in the Athletic Complex

College of Arts and Sciences Award Ceremony
Friday, May 18th at 3:00pm in the Ira Allen Chapel

"Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variablity" with Jack Halberstam
Thursday, April 19th at 5:30pm in the Davis Center Mildred Livak ballrooms

English and Film and Television Studies Honors Day
Friday April 27th 3:30pm - 5:30pm in John Dewey Lounge

Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Judy Hoffman
Wednesday, April 4th from 7:00 - 8:00pm in the Bailey-Howe Library Screening Room
Sponsored by the Film and Television Program, UVM Film Club, and the English Department

Reading and Q&A with Kristin Valdez Quade
Thursday, April 5th from 6:30 - 8:00pm in the Old Mill John Dewey Lounge

Reading and Q&A with Andrew Higgins
Q&A: Friday, April 6th at 4:30pm in Lafayette 108
Reading: Friday, April 6th at 7:00pm in Waterman Memorial Lounge

15th Annual Tolkein in Vermont Conference
Theme: Language and Etymologies. Saturday, April 8th from 8:00am - 5:00pm in Waterman.

Alison Bechdel's Vermont: A Queer Regionalism with Professor Valerie Rohy
Wednesday March 28th from 12:00-3:00pm in the Fleming Museum of Art

The First Annual 2018 Student Symposium
Thursday, March 29th from 9:00am - 4:00pm in the Davis Center Livak Ballrooms.

The Painted Word: Michael Dickman
A UVM Poetry Series. Wednesday, February 28th at 6:00pm in the Fleming Museum

The Crest Film Screening and Q&A with Director Mark Covino
Wednesday, February 28th at 6:00pm in Waterman 413

Alison Bechdel: The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel
Wednesday, February 21st from 7:00pm-8:30pm in the Silver Maple Ballroom
Sponsored by the English Department, The Fleming Museum of Art, and The Vermont Humanities Council.

The Painted Word: Jill McDonough
A UVM Poetry Series. Thursday, November 30 at 6:00pm in the Fleming Museum
Sponsored by the English Department and the Fleming Museum of Art

BOSP Information Session with Beryl Frishtick
Wednesday, October 25th from 3:00-4:00pm in Old Mill John Dewey Lounge.

Kelly Link Q&A
Wednesday, October 11th at 5:00pm in the Ira Allen Chapel

English and FTS Majors Barbeque
Thursdeay, October 5 from 4:30 - 6:40pm in front of Royal Tyler Theater

The Painted Word: Willie Perdomo
A UVM Poetry Series. Thursday, September 21st in the Fleming Museum
Sponsored by the English Department and The Fleming Museum of Art

A "Live" Podcast Discussion & Reading with Poet, Literary Critic, and Essayist David Lehman
Friday, September 15th from 1:00pm - 3:00pm in the Old Mill Dewey Lounge

UVM President helps celebrate at event at the Fleming museum

Upcoming Events with FTS

Full Professor Lecture Series

The ceiling of Billings Library at UVM.

The Dean’s Lecture Series: celebrating the wealth of professional knowledge in our college for over 20 years

These lectures are based on faculty members' current research and are open to the public.

Future Lectures:

Recent Lectures:

Full Professor Lecture Series: From Baseball Gloves to Facism: Knowledge and the Social Order

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019, 5:05 - 6:05 pm, Billings Lecture Hall

Full Professor Lecture Series: Is American Literature Secular? (Nope.) by Elizabeth Fenton

Wednesday, September 4 2019, 4:30 - 5:30 pm, Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building

Interview with Professor Elizabeth Fenton.

Past Lectures:

Mary Lou Kete Full Professor Lecture: Vermont's Lucy Terry Prince: Black Mother of the Republic

Wednesday, February 13 2019, in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, 4:30 pm

Professor Andrew Barnaby's Full Professor Lecture on Hamlet Mignon took place on Wednesday, April 25th at 4:30pm in Memorial Lounge.
Interview with Professor Andrew Barnaby.

Professor Todd McGowan presented his lecture on "How Marx's Misreading of Hegel Led to Stalin" on Wednesday, February 28th.

Interview with Professor Todd McGowan.

Poster for Professor McGowan's lecture (PDF)

The series was established in 1991 as a way to recognize and honor colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences who have consistently demonstrated the ability to translate their professional knowledge and skill into exciting classroom experiences for their students — faculty who meet the challenge of being both excellent teachers and highly respected professionals in their own discipline. The Award is a celebration of the unusually high quality of our faculty and has become an important and treasured event each semester.

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