UPDATED: Issue 2.22 the week of 3/21/2022 |
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The Weekly Undergraduate E-Newsletter
Upcoming Dates & Deadlines, Events & Info
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Looking Ahead: Academic Dates
& Deadlines Spring 2022
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March 2022
March 22
12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Common Works Essentials: Conversations Workshop with Prof. Tamsen Wolff
McCosh Hall B45
March 23
12:00 - 1:20 p.m.
Study Abroad Information Session
University College London
McCosh Hall B14
March 24
Sophomore Declaration Period Begins
March 25
10:00 a.m. - 4:00p.m.
JIW & Thesis Boot Camp
McCosh 40, 2 & 4
April
April 1
- UG Deadline to Drop Spring Term Courses
- Select P/D/F Option Ends
- 10:00 a.m. - 4:00p.m.
JIW & Thesis Boot Camp
McCosh 40, 2 & 4
April 11
Sophomore Declaration Period Ends
April 12
- Declaration Day
- Junior Fall Term 2022 Course Selection
April 13
Sophomore Fall 2022 Course Selection
April 14
First-year Fall 2022 Course Selection
Common Works Essentials: Encountering Poetry with Profs. Jeff Dolven & Josh Kotin
McCosh Hall B
April 18
12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Common Works Essentials:
Imitation Workshop with Prof. Jeff Dolven
McCosh Hall B45
April 19 -UPDATED DATE!
- Senior Thesis Due
- Junior Independent Work Due
April 20
English Majors' Colloquium: TBD
4:30 p.m. East Pyne 010
April 22
Last Day of Regularly Scheduled Classes
April 25
- Reading Period Begins
- UG Add/Drop for Fall 2022 Term Courses Begins
April 29
UG Add/Drop for Fall 2022 Term Courses Ends
May
May 3
- Reading Period Ends
- Dean's Date
May 4
Take-Home Final Exam Period Begins
May 5
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Part 1:Senior Comprehensive Exam
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Part 2: Senior Comprehensive Exam
May 6
Spring Term Final Exams Begin
May 11
Deadline for Take-Home Exams
May 12
Spring Term Final Exams End
May 22
Baccalaureate
May 23
Class Day
May 24
Commencement Day
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Department's Undergraduate Research Funding Information —
Additional Funding Opportunities Keep Scrolling!
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Undergraduate research funding happens from a variety of source, through our Department, other departments, and the Office of Undergraduate Research (O.U.R.).
The below funding opportunities are available to English Concentrators only. You may search for additional funding opportunities through S.A.F.E.
S.A.F.E. has streamlined your application process: for each funding cycle, you submit only one application for all funding opportunities; however, the earliest funding opportunity deadline is the due date for your entire application.
Check your deadlines as they are often early for other departments and programs within the University. Please review the section below for more information about O.U.R.'s deadlines and processes.
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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-Annan 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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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 in S.A.F.E. are early: be sure you consult O.U.R. and plan ahead.
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Additional Dates for Juniors: |
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Additional Dates for Seniors:
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2022
April 12
Registration for Fall 2022 Courses Opens
April 19
Junior Independent Work Due
May 3
Dean's Date
Please see the below information regarding O.U.R.'s funding cycles and the Departmental resources for research funding support.
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2022
March 25
Class Day photos due
April 19
Senior Thesis Due
May 3
Dean's Date
May 5
Senior Comprehensive Exam
- Part One 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Part Two 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
May 22
Baccalaureate
May 23
Class Day
May 24
Commencement Day
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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IMPORTANT:
Change in Due Date:
Junior and Senior Independent Work
Now due Tuesday, April 19, 2022, noon.
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The below message was sent via email to all concentrators on Thursday, March 24, 2022.
To the Classes of 2022 and 2023
Dear Juniors and Seniors,
Many members of our faculty have noticed that you have been struggling to finish your independent work. Finishing is always a struggle, but we suspect that the lingering lassitude of COVID is hampering your collective abilities to pull everything together.
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures. Therefore, we have decided to extend the deadline for the submission of your Independent Work. Your independent work is now due on 19 April (not 12 April). We will update our newsletter ASAP to reflect this change.
We hope this extension gives you the time you need to complete your work with confidence.
Good luck!
CLJ
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Claudia L. Johnson
Murray Professor of Literature
Director, Undergraduate Studies
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Concentrator's Independent Work Boot Camps
Friday, March 25 @ 10:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m.
Friday, April 1 @ 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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To assist with your senior theses or junior papers, graduate students (many of whom you have already met as your preceptors) will be on standby on March 25th and April 1st, in McCosh Hall rooms 2, 4 and 40 from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. to help you with your projects.
Walk-ins are welcome, and you can stay in the room the whole day (10AM to 4PM) if you'd like.
Lunch will be provided to those students who RSVP by March 22nd for the March 25th Boot Camp and those who RSVP by March 29th for the April 1st Boot Camp. For those who missed the deadline to order, please feel free to bring your lunch and join the work!
If you would like graduate students to read material beforehand, please fill out the optional parts of the survey and upload your work to the DropBox link below. Note that the graduate student will spend no more than one hour with your writing before the session, so make sure to specify what aspects of your writing you would like their attention on.
A DropBox link to submit material beforehand:
You must submit your material and lunch order no later than March 22nd for the March 25th Boot Camp and
no later than March 29th for the April 1st Boot Camp.
Slots are limited for prior submissions and will be read in order of submissions.
Questions? Please reach out to either Jeewon Yoo (jeewony@princeton.edu) our graduate Boot Camp coordinator, or Kelly Lake (kalake@princeton.edu).
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Join Professor Christina Leon
Late Thursdays!
@ Princeton University Art Museum
Thursday, March 31, 2022
@5:30 p.m
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Join us for a conversation with Mexican multimedia artist Teresa Margolles, the Art Museum’s 2022 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence, and Christina León, assistant professor of English. Margolles’s practice explores the relationship between marginality and violence, especially in relation to groups that are vulnerable to the devastating effects of social unrest, impoverishment, and urban blight resulting from government corruption.
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The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change
Monday April 18, 2022 @ 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Amitav Ghosh, speaker.
It has long been predicted that climate change will lead to large-scale displacements of population and mass migration. Is it possible to look at the European 'migrant crisis’ of recent years through this prism? This, and many other related questions, prompted me to travel to migrant camps in Italy in 2017, to interview migrants whose languages I am familiar with: that is to say speakers of Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. This talk is an attempt to identify some of the underlying patterns in the stories I was told by the migrants, in their own languages.
Organized by the Program in South Asian Studies. Co-sponsored by The Center for Global India, Princeton University Humanities Council, Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Anthropology
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Summer Funding Opportunities |
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Souls Grown Deep Research Grant, Summer 2022
The Princeton University Art Museum
Deadline: April 1, 2022
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The Princeton University Art Museum is pleased to have the opportunity to offer one Souls Grown Deep research grant for the summer of 2022. Applications are due Friday, April 1st.
Veronica Maria White
Curator of Teaching and Learning
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018
T (609) 258-7136
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Concentrators, to assist with your senior theses or junior papers, graduate students (many of whom you have already met as your preceptors) will be on standby on March 25th to help you with your projects. Walk-ins are welcome, and you can stay in the room the whole day (10AM to 4PM) if you'd like. Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please submit this survey.
If you would like graduate students to read material beforehand, please fill out the optional parts of the survey. Note that the graduate student will spend no more than one hour with your writing before the session, so make sure to specify what aspects of your writing you would like their attention on. A dropbox link is in the survey if you want to submit material beforehand. You must submit your material no later than March 22nd. Slots are limited for prior submissions and will be read in order of submissions.
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CWE: Encountering Poetry in Songs of Innocence and Experience and Dicksinson's Selected with Profs. Jeff Dolven & Josh Kotin
Thursday, April 14, 2022
12:30 - 1:20 p.m. McCosh Hall B45
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Join Profs. Jeff Dolven and Josh Kotin on Thursday, April 14, 2022 for a conversation exploring the essentials of reading poetry. Essential events are open to all English concentrators as well as students interested in concentrating in English.
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CWE: Imitation Conversation with Prof. Jeff Dolven
Monday, April 18, 2022
12:30 - 1:20 p.m. McCosh B45
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Join Prof. Jeff Dolven on Monday, April 18, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. to discuss how to approach responding to questions that require imitation.
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Encountering Moby Dick with Profs. Sarah Rivett & Josh Kotin
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Common Works Essentials:
Encountering Moby Dick.
Join Prof. Sarah Rivett and Prof. Josh Kotin on Monday, April 25, 2022 at 12:30 p.m.
to discuss how to approach reading Moby Dick.
For junior English concentrators, for those interested in concentrating in English, for beginners and seasoned readers alike (and anyone who just might be taking the Common Exam in the spring 2023).
We will read some passages together and dare to ask the question, how do we approach this text? Set reading goals for the summer of 2022.
Lunch provided for those concentrators who have RSVP'd by Thursday, April 21, 2022.
Register: htps://bit.ly/CWE_MobyDick22
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Senior Concentrators: CLASS DAY 2022 |
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Class Day 2022 is Monday, May 23, 2022 at 1:30 p.m.
But we need your materials by Friday, March 25th!
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Dear Senior Concentrators,
Class Day 2022 is approaching!(May 23, 2022 at 1:30 p.m.)
While you are working diligently to finish your Senior thesis work, the Department of English Undergraduate is working to put together a wonderful experience to celebrate you, your family and loved ones, and your graduation.
To aid us in this endeavor we need your help!
WE NEED YOUR PHOTOS! And we need your correct INFORMATION!
Your information:
Your Photos -- What we need:
Please send us as jpeg/png/doc/pdf of your baby/ young person photo:
- Your favorite baby/ young person picture (cuteness you, creative you, "little reader" you, or the one you like the most!)
Please also send us a jpeg/png/doc/pdf of a recent picture photo:
- Picture(s) of you now or recently -- this will be shared in our department film with your thesis and any prize(s) you may win.
We would also greatly appreciate your help by sharing your photos from these past two years:
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We would also love photos that we can share of you and other concentrators. Please think of ones that "express you" or a photo of you that you love (and your family might too.)
And a really short video (30 seconds please!)
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If you'd like, please take a short video (no longer than a 30 seconds, of you sharing a favorite poem or passage that resonates with you, one which knocks you over, makes your heart sing, your brain buzz, or the one that captured your interest and brought you to your thesis!
WHERE TO SUBMIT?
Please submit your materials through the submission box on our webpage here
(Kindly label your files with your full name - pngs, jpegs, pdfs, word docs are all welcome.)
MATERIALS ARE DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2022.
Stumped for ideas? Here is last year's Class Day 2021 and Class Day 2021 to see what's been done before...
It has been a challenging few years for all of us, and we hope to share with everyone those moments that you'd like to share with your family and friends.
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Student Employment/ Internship Opportunities |
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Hiring Summer Startup Paid Internship Opportunity: Readwell |
Readwell, a digital reading platform, is looking to hire Princeton undergraduate students in a couple of positions to join our startup team and take part in the Keller Center’s eLab Summer Accelerator! We are looking for help with: (1) web development, (2) iOS and/or Android app development, (3) marketing, branding, and/or social media, and (4) graphic design. Interest in literature, entrepreneurship, books, or storytelling is preferred but not required. Graduating seniors are eligible. Housing and stipend provided.
See the eLab link for more information, and fill out the short application form by March 10th here:
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Princeton Research Day 2022
Video Submissions due:
March 28, 2022
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We are excited to announce that Princeton Research Day will be held May 5, 2022, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Please take a moment to add this event to your planning and public event calendars!
Princeton Research Day is a celebration of early-career research and creative works by undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other early-career participants. The event is an opportunity for presenters to develop their ability to communicate complex topics to broad, non-specialist audiences.
This opportunity is open to participants from across the campus in the arts and humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and engineering.
Participants will create and submit 3-minute videos about their research and creative work. All videos will be available for viewing online, and the PRD panel of judges will choose the top videos for prizes. Winners will be invited to attend Princeton Research Day in person on May 5, 2022.
Key dates for PRD:
- March 28 - Video submission opens
- April 27 - Final video submission deadline for award consideration
- April 29 - PRD videos online for viewing and judging
- May 5, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. - PRD Mainstage, poster session, and awards ceremony
Princeton Research Day is produced by the offices of the Dean of the College, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Dean for Research, the Vice President for Campus Life, with support from the offices of the Dean of the Faculty and the Provost.
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Summer Research
(May 15 - Sept. 7, 2022)
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Application Opens: Friday, February 18, 2021 |
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Application Closed: Sunday, March 20, 2022 |
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Funding Decision Posted: Friday, April 15, 2022 |
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DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR SUMMER RESEARCH FUNDING |
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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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The COVID-19 Dashboard now includes data from the undergraduates living on campus and those living locally with access to campus for the spring semester. Please keep in mind that the Dashboard is updated weekly on Mondays with results from the previous week, not in real time.
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Find Help When You Need It |
Princeton is a caring and relatively small place, so it is not difficult to find support if you look for it. The University strives to provide you with the academic, personal and health resources to succeed on campus. We do assume, however, that you will seek out the help you need.
To make the most of your academic experience, you’ll want to take advantage of the many resources designed to enhance your approach to research, writing and problem solving.
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Useful Services & Information |
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The Center for Career Development is here to help all undergraduate and graduate students of all years to identify their interests and strengths, explore a diverse range of opportunities to build experience and clarity about their goals, and empower them to pursue paths they find personally meaningful.
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Humanities Council Faculty Bookshelf:
Visit the Humanities Council's Faculty Bookshelf! Browse by author or discipline to explore the University's cutting-edge humanities scholarship.
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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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Writing Program
For Juniors and Seniors:
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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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Murray Professor of English Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Undergraduate Administrator
(609)258-4093
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Suggestions, events, additions, or questions?
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