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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The message for the week, from this and every rooftop is, VOTE!
Thanks, last and most, to all who attended the undergraduate town hall meeting on diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism last Wednesday. There will be more events and occasions to follow, taking up the department's place in this vital work. Stay tuned.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Undergraduate Administrator
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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 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
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Additional Dates for Juniors: |
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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
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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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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Election Meditation:
Let's Breathe Through This Together
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Please join us today at 1pm for the first session of “Election Meditation” led by Matthew Weiner, Associate Dean of Religious Life, for those experiencing stress around the election season. These meditations will be one hour each. Open to all. Please make sure your camera is off and you are muted when joining.
Monday, Nov 2 - 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov 3 - 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov 4 - 12:30 p.m.
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NEW CALENDAR AVAILABLE:
Access Princeton's
Virtual Activities Calendar
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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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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 Jeff Dolven:
Long Nights
By Jenny Xie
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Ice, entire cakes of it.
Crows feed on sand.
So poor is this season
the ground steals color
from the tree-shadows.
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Can it be that nothing
is as far as here?
Just look!
How much past we have
to cover this evening–
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Come to think of it
don't forget to pick
off this self and that self
along the way.
Though that’s not right–
you spit them out like pits.
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If there is a partition between
the outer and inner worlds,
how is it that some water in me churns
between the mountain ranges?
How is it we are absorbed so easily
by the ground—
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Long nights for simple words.
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Slant rhyme of current thinking
and past thinking.
A chewed over hour, late.
Where the long ago past
and the future come
to settle scores.
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Traveling and traveling,
but so much interior
unpicked over by the eyes.
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Nothing is as far as here.
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Jenny Xie, "Long Nights" from Eye Level. Copyright © 2018 by Jenny Xie.
Photo Credit:"Autumn shadows" by Karen_O'D 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
22 McCosh Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4061
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