The Weekly: Undergraduate News
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Issue #10 for the week of 10/26/2020
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From the Director of Studies: |
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I cannot resist opening by pointing us all to Karan Mahajan and Jenny Xie’s virtual visit, courtesy of the Asian American Studies Lecture Series. Xie is a wonderful poet, whose book Eye Level has been much celebrated; she is also an alum of our department, and I am proud to say that I had the honor of advising her JP (on Salinger and narrative theory, I recall). Needless to say, you should go.
Juniors and seniors in the department are very warmly invited to a town hall with the faculty on diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism. You will have received information about the details; it is one of many events, and more to come, for all of our members, in which the department is responding to the urgency and opportunity of the present reckoning with systematic racism, here in the United States and abroad.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Undergraduate Administrator
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October 2020
October 28
4:30 p.m. | Zoom TBA
UG Concentrators and Department Faculty
Town Hall: Racism & Our Curriculum
October 29
7:30 p.m. | Zoom TBA
Asian American Studies Lecture Series:
Karan Mahajan and Jenny Xie
November 2020
November 3
11:59 p.m.
Undergraduate Deadline to Select P/D/F Option
November 4
12:30 p.m. | Zoom TBA
Princeton University Press and Publishing Jobs Workshop
November 24
Final Day of Regularly Schedule Classes
November 25 - 27
Thanksgiving Recess
November 26 - 27
University Holiday
Administrative Offices Closed
November 30
Reading Period Begins
December 2020
December 8
Reading Period Ends
Dean's Date: Deadline for Student Submission of Written Work
December 9 - 15
Fall Term Final Examinations
December 12
Deadline for Submission of Take-Home Exercises
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Additional Dates for Juniors: |
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November 17
JP Topic Sheet DUE to Junior Seminar Faculty (ENG 300)
December 2
7:30 a.m.
Junior Spring Term Course Selection Begins
January 15
Deadline for Submitting Junior Independent Work
Please see the below information regarding O.U.R.'s funding cycles and the Departmental resources for research funding support.
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Additional Dates for Seniors: |
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November 16
O.U.R. Winter Funding Application Opens
S.A.F.E.
December 1
7:30 a.m.
Senior Spring Term Course Selection Begins
December 15
Senior's 20-page minimum thesis chapter DUE to advisors and Dropbox
(link TBA)
April 13, 2021
Senior Thesis DUE
Please see the below information regarding O.U.R.'s funding cycles and the Departmental resources for research funding support.
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LINK TO DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH UG WEBSITE
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October 28, 4:30 p.m.
UG Concentrators and Department Faculty
Town Hall: Diversity, Inclusion,
and Anti-racism within
Our Department & Our Curriculum
Check your email for links to the questionnaire and memo addressing matters of curriculum, hiring, and governance.
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SENIORS:
NEW DEADLINE:
20 PAGES SENIOR THESIS WORK IS NOW
DECEMBER 15, 2020
PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE!
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Check Out the Lit Review and Podcasts
Below!
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Here and There:
Issue 2: Shelter in Place features the creative work of Reb Ngu, Cole Vandenberg, Sophia Marusic, Abby Spare, Cassandra James, Aditi Desai, Lila Harmar, Anika Khakoo, Mel Hornyak, Natalia Arbelaez Solano, Brittani Telfair, and the editorial talents of Isabel Griffith-Gorgati.
Thank you to our wonderful contributors.
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RESEARCH FUNDING INFORMATION: |
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The Maren Grant for Senior Thesis Research
The Maren Grant for Senior Thesis Research supports work toward the thesis for seniors in the English Department. Students should apply through SAFE, and choose the Maren Grant among their funding sources.
Please apply to all funding sources for which you are eligible.
Applications to the Maren Grant for Senior Thesis Research may be made in any of the three OUR funding cycles:
- for thesis research in the summer before senior year;
- in the fall of senior year;
- or in the winter before the thesis is due.
Awards are typically between $200 and $1200.
Deadlines are early: be sure you consult OUR and plan ahead.
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The Maren-Annan Grant for Departmental Research
The Maren-Annan Grant for Departmental Research supports student research for the Junior Paper and, under special circumstances, for other work for juniors or seniors within the context of a course in the English Department (excluding the senior thesis).
Applications should be made through SAFE, by choosing “Undergraduate Independent Projects” under “ACTIVITY.”
Please apply to all funds for which you are eligible along with the Maren Grant.
Allowable expenses correspond to those listed for senior thesis research on the OUR website.
Applications may be made at any time, but we recommend submission at least four weeks before any planned travel.
Awards are typically between $200 and $1200.
Consultation with your JP advisor or the instructor for your class is essential.
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Winter Break/ January Winter Semester O.U.R. Funding Cycle:
O.U.R.'s Application Opens: Monday, November 16, 2020
O.U.R.'s Application Closes: Sunday, December 6, 2020
O.U.R.'s Award posted: Friday, January 8, 2021
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Summer O.U.R. Funding Cycle:
O.U.R.'s Application Opens: Friday, February 19, 2021
O.U.R.'s Application Closes: Sunday, March 21, 2021
O.U.R.'s Award posted: Friday, April 16, 2021
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Your application for all funding must be made through S.A.F.E.
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Students applying to the OUR senior thesis research funding program are required to apply for all departmental and programmatic funds for which they are eligible in one single application.
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You will be able to save your application in SAFE and go back to it, but you must complete and submit the application by the earliest deadline of all the funding sources to which you are applying; no changes will be accepted once applications are submitted and locked, except for the selection of additional funding opportunities when eligible.
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Student Activity Funding Engine (S.A.F.E.)
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NEW CALENDAR AVAILABLE:
Access Princeton's
Virtual Activities Calendar
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The World I Live In: The World We Live In.
A Conversation with Andrea Jenkins
Thursday, October 29, 2020
1:00 – 2:00 PM EST
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Cutting edge scholarship and conversations with leading LGBTQ politicians and advocates.
Andrea Jenkins is an American policy aide, politician, writer, performance artist, poet, and transgender activist. She is known for being the first black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States, serving since January 2018 on the Minneapolis City Council.
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Asian American Studies Lecture Series:
Karan Mahajan and Jenny Xie, Readings and Q&A
Thursday, October 19, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. EST
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t4t: A Trans Studies Symposium
November 10, 12, 17, and 19 at 12:00 p.m. EST
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The Trans Studies Symposium will bring together artists, scholars, and community organizers to be in dialogue about the current state of trans studies and movement building. Over four conversations, the symposium will help to unfurl the legacies of trans organizing, scholarship, art practices, and histories, and how we might consider this history as we move forward into a precarious future.
Speakers & Registration Links:
Cassils
rafa esparza
Jules Gill-Peterson
Perry Zurn
Dora Santana
Río Sophia
Raquel Salas-Rivera
Kelly Díaz
Sponsors: 250th Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Department of English, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in American Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, Lewis Center for the Arts
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Other Events Around Princeton |
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Paul B. Preciado
“An Apartment on Uranus:
Chronicles of the Crossing”
Interlocutor: Ivan Lopez Munuera
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 @5pm EST
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On Patiency, or, Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
William Mazzarella, The University of Chicago
Thu, 10/29 · 4:30 pm-6:00 pm · via Zoom
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This presentation offers a preliminary series of thoughts on what ‘patiency’ might mean. Patiency is neither patience nor passivity; rather it suggests a kind of active and intentional yielding, in which there is creative potency. Patiency is an opening to resonance: sacred, aesthetic, therapeutic. It has to do with what the sixteenth century magus-philosopher Giordano Bruno called ‘the power to be made.’ Patiency demands that we consider the distinction between surrender and submission. Politically, patiency puts pressure on the presumed excellence of agency as the preferred idiom of self-determination, and thus also on the cult of moralized utility and the aspiration to heroic sovereignty that informs most mainstream public discourse, including the discourse of academic legitimacy.
This talk will be in a workshop format with a pre-circulated paper.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council David A. Gardner 69′ Magic Project
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Bodies I Have in Mind
Embodying Myth on Stage
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November 3, 2020
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With Mary Alice Zimmerman, Northwestern University, in conversation with Katerina Stergiopoulou, Department of Classics.
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How to be Naturally You in the Workplace
Thurs., Nov. 19 • 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET
A panel of professionals will discuss the difficulties they have encountered with having a natural hairstyle at their workplace.
Learn more & register:
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University Center for Human Values offers events of interest: |
To access the events that the University Center of Human Values presents please use this:
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Ever wanted to know what your professors have been working on when they're not teaching your classes?
Visit the Humanities Council's Faculty Bookshelf! Browse by author or discipline to explore the University's cutting-edge humanities scholarship. (Check out our Department's Faculty Author Q&A: CLaudia Johnson on "30 Great Myths about Jane Austen" here!)
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80-minute, Discipline-Specific Appointments: From formulating a plan for semester- and year-long projects to conducting research and drafting and revising, our trained Graduate Fellows are available as students tackle the challenges of independent work! Make an appointment now: https://writingcenter.princeton.edu/s/80MIN
The Virtual Writing Lab (Sunday-Thursday 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET): Having a hard time getting motivated working on your JP or Thesis? Looking for a sense of community? Don’t go it alone! Join our Zoom-based virtual lab to write with peers, consult Fellows as needed, and tackle your short and long-term writing goals! Join here any time we’re open.
Writing Partnerships: Pair up with an experienced Graduate Fellow for a standing weekly appointment to structure the JP or thesis writing process and avoid a pile-up of writing at the end of the semester. If you’re interested in setting up a partnership, write to Dr. Creedon (greedon@princeton.edu).
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Online access to millions of books from PUL's print collection resumes through HathiTrust emergency access service
In response to the needs of an increased number of students and faculty researching, teaching, and learning remotely this fall, Princeton University Library is pleased to announce the resumption of the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) effective August 31. Through this service, millions of books from our print collection will be accessible online. Full article.
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Princeton University Library to launch Study-Browse Service on August 10
Princeton University Library (PUL) will launch a new service, the PUL Study-Browse Service, beginning Aug. 10 with a pilot at Firestone Library. Through an online reservation system, Princeton University students and faculty with an active PUID will be able to book a seat in a designated Library location for a specified period of time. The Library remains closed to the public and other patrons. The start date of the Study-Browse Service at branch libraries and Special Collections will be determined within the coming days. Access to Special Collections is not available at this time. More information.
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This week's contribution is graciously provided by
Professor Christina León:
The Leash
by Ada Limón
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After the birthing of bombs of forks and fear
the frantic automatic weapons unleashed,
the spray of bullets into a crowd holding hands,
that brute sky opening in a slate metal maw
that swallows only the unsayable in each of us, what’s
left? Even the hidden nowhere river is poisoned
orange and acidic by a coal mine. How can
you not fear humanity, want to lick the creek
bottom dry, to suck the deadly water up into
your own lungs, like venom? Reader, I want to
say: Don’t die. Even when silvery fish after fish
comes back belly up, and the country plummets
into a crepitating crater of hatred, isn’t there still
something singing? The truth is: I don’t know.
But sometimes, I swear I hear it, the wound closing
like a rusted-over garage door, and I can still move
my living limbs into the world without too much
pain, can still marvel at how the dog runs straight
toward the pickup trucks break-necking down
the road, because she thinks she loves them,
because she’s sure, without a doubt, that the loud
roaring things will love her back, her soft small self
alive with desire to share her goddamn enthusiasm,
until I yank the leash back to save her because
I want her to survive forever. Don’t die, I say,
and we decide to walk for a bit longer, starlings
high and fevered above us, winter coming to lay
her cold corpse down upon this little plot of earth.
Perhaps we are always hurtling our body towards
the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love
from the speeding passage of time, and so maybe,
like the dog obedient at my heels, we can walk together
peacefully, at least until the next truck comes.
Ada Limón, "The Leash" from The Carrying. 2018, Milkweed Editions
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Photo Credit:"IMG_8346 Pablo Picasso. 1881-1973. Le garçon au chien. Boy with a dog. 1905. (Collection Chtchoukine. Saint Pétersbourg. Ermitage. Exposition temporaire Fondation Louis Vuitton. Paris. )" by jean louis mazieres is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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Suggestions, events, additions, or questions: contact The Department of English's Undergraduate Administrator, Kelly Lake kalake@princeton.edu
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Department of English
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