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Issue #14 for the week of 11/23/2020
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From the Director of Studies: |
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The last week of classes!—may it bring the satisfactions of synopsis, and leave a hunger to last past Thanksgiving. I hope all members of our scattered community can spend these coming days with loved ones. We will return to reading, writing, exams, but first, a little rest.
For the few days in-between I’ll note only Lisa Dwan’s reading of Colm Tóibín’s “Pale Sister,” a play written for her to perform. Dwan has been a virtual guest of the department all semester, and this opportunity is one of her many generosities. Please join us.
And a modest feast awaits in the afterward.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Undergraduate Administrator
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ACADEMIC DATES & DEADLINES |
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November 2020
November 24
Final Day of Regularly Scheduled 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
December 22
Winter Break Begins
2021
January 2021
January 18
Undergraduate Add/ Drop Period Begins
Virtual Wintersession Begins
February 2021
February 1
Spring 2021 Classes Begin
February 12
Deadline to Add/Drop Classes without fee
March 2021
March 8 - 12
Spring Midterm Period
March 13-16
Spring Recess
March 17
Classes Resume
Undergraduate Selection of P/D/F begins
March 25
A.B. Concentration Declaration Period Begins
April 2021
April 6
Deadline to Drop Spring Term Courses
Deadline to Select P/D/F Option
April 13
Declaration Day
Junior Fall Term 2021 Course Selection
April 14
Sophomore Fall Term 2021 Course Selection
April 15
First-Year Fall Term 2021 Course Selection
April 27
Spring 2021 Term Courses End
April 28
Reading Period Begins
May 2021
May 5
Reading Period Ends
Dean's Date
May 8 - 14
Spring 2021 Final Exams
May 25
Commencement
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Additional Dates for Juniors: |
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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.
November 17
JP Topic Sheet DUE to Junior Seminar Faculty (ENG 300)
December 2
7:30 a.m.
Junior Spring Term Course Selection Begins
December 6
O.U.R. Winter Funding Application CLOSES
S.A.F.E.
2021
January 15, 2021
Deadline for Submitting 10 pages of Junior Independent Work or final JP prospectus due
February 19, 2021
First full JP draft due to advisor
April 13, 2021
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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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 6
O.U.R. Winter Funding Application CLOSES
S.A.F.E.
December 15
Senior's 20-page minimum thesis chapter DUE to advisors and Dropbox
(link TBA)
2021
March 8, 2021
Deadline for submission of non-thesis materials for department prizes
April 13, 2021
Senior Thesis DUE
May 6-7, 2021
Senior Departmental/
Comprehensive Exams
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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SENIORS:
NEW DEADLINE:
20 PAGES SENIOR THESIS WORK IS NOW
DECEMBER 15, 2020
PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE!
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JUST IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING
Here and There: Issue 3: Food
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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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Access Princeton's
Virtual Activities Calendar
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Reading:
Pale Sister by Colm Tóibín
performed by Lisa Dwan
Monday, November 23 at 5:00 p.m. EST
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The Department of English and the Council of the Humanities invite you to a rehearsed reading of Colm Tóibín’s Pale Sister by Lisa Dwan. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness this amazing performance.
Click below to register:
Written especially for Lisa Dwan, Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities. Pale Sister reimagines Sophocles’s Antigone from the point of view of her sister, Ismene. The play follows Ismene as she recounts her sister’s infamous defiance of their uncle, the king of Thebes, and decides what to do as the pressure mounts on the submissive young woman to act. The production was born from a semester-long course Tóibin and Dwan taught at Columbia University, exploring Antigone’s story and its adaptation through history.
Colm Tóibin is one of Ireland’s most celebrated living authors, known for his novels including The Master, Nora Webster, The Testament of Mary, and Brooklyn, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Domnhall Gleeson. Tóibin has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and has received numerous awards, including the Costa Novel Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Irish Pen Award.
Award winning stage, film, and TV actress, Lisa Dwan, is best known for her acclaimed performances in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s works. Her sold-out tour of "The Beckett Trilogy" in the United States received rave reviews, with the New York Times describing her as “an instrument of Beckett in the way saints and martyrs are said to be instruments of god.” Dwan won the Emery Battis award for her performance in Harold Pinter’s The Lover and The Collection at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Dwan adapted and starred in No’s Knife at Old Vic Theatre and Abbey Theatre, making her the first woman to perform Beckett's Stories and Texts for Nothing. As part of her “Greek series” Dwan is currently in production to film Pale Sister for the BBC and collaborating with Margaret Atwood on a new version of Medea and with Salman Rushdie on a Helen of Troy. Dwan regularly lectures internationally on theatre and Beckett. Presently the Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, Dwan is currently starring in Netflix’s Top Boy for Netflix. Following their recent success on Beckett’s shorts including “Eh Joe,” Dwan will once again team up with Sir Trevor Nunn to play Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days in February 2021.
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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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This week's contribution is graciously provided by
Professor Jeff Dolven:
CRANBERRIES
From Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein (1914)
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Could there not be a sudden date, could there not be in the present settlement of old age pensions, could there not be by a witness, could there be.
Count the chain, cut the grass, silence the noon and murder flies. See the basting undip the chart, see the way the kinds are best seen from the rest, from that and untidy.
Cut the whole space into twenty-four spaces and then and then is there a yellow color, there is but it is smelled, it is then put where it is and nothing stolen.
A remarkable degree of red means that, a remarkable exchange is made.
Climbing altogether in when there is a solid chance of soiling no more than a dirty thing, coloring all of it in steadying is jelly.
Just as it is suffering, just as it is succeeded, just as it is moist so is there no countering.
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Photo Credit: "Sculpture" by wsilver is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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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Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4061
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