ENAM News and Events
Please join us for a reading by
LORE SEGAL
7:30 pm
Mitchell Green Lounge
Lore Segal is a celebrated novelist and author of eight books for children, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for Shakespeare’s Kitchen, a novel. Born in Vienna in 1928, she was among the first group rescued from Hitler during the Kindertransport mission. Her stories about being a refugee were later published in The New Yorker and elsewhere.
Her stories of assimilation and struggle, in various forms and genres, have won her a wide, admiring audience and numerous awards and prizes. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Sarah Lawrence, among other colleges.
This reading is co-sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Please join us for a talk by award-winning writer
RICK BASS
7:30 p.m.
Abernethy Room, Axinn
Co-sponsored by Environmental Affairs and The Academic Enrichment Fund
We study literature, the poet Wallace Stevens said, because it "helps us to live our lives."
The faculty in English and American Literatures offer courses in lecture and seminar format on the British and American literary traditions from their origins to the present, as well on literature written in English in the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia. We have particular historical strengths in the teaching of American Literature and in the works of William Shakespeare, and we offer creative writing workshops in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
On this site, you can find information about the English and American Literatures major, about our faculty, about individual courses, and about research and creative writing opportunities for students.
Photograph: A. Harlan