Stanford University Department of English Events

A Reading by Louise Glück, The Mohr Visiting Poet. Glück was United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004) and is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Averno, The Seven Ages, Vita Nova, Meadowlands, The Wild Iris, Ararat, and The Triumph of Achilles. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and the M.I.T. Anniversary Medal.

Celebrate the release of Issue 10 of Mantis, A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation.

RSVP required by March 5. Seating is limited. Reception, workshop and dramatic reading in celebration of the life and poetry, and the evocative context of Nelly Sachs, winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature. Sponsored by The Europe Center and The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts

Reading by British author Geoff Dyer from recently published novel Zona plus panel discussion.

Zadie Smith, novelist and NYU professor, delivers the annual Ian Watt Lecture on the History and Theory of the Novel, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Novel.

Participants: Nancy Armstrong (Duke), Elizabeth Anker (Cornell), Elizabeth Dillon (Northeastern), Brian Edwards (Northwestern), Meltern Gurle (Istanbul), Kent Puckett (Berkeley), Vaughn Rasberry (Stanford), Mariano Siskind (Harvard), Alan Tansman (Berkeley), Ben Wang (Stanford).

Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Novel begins on Friday, April 20.

Discussion w/ Jed Esty of his book Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development. Respondents: Franco Moretti (Stanford) and Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley)

“From Proust to Programming: Bridging the Gap Between the Humanities and the Tech World”