The Weekly: Undergraduate News
...Coming to your inbox Mondays
Issue #23 for the week of 2/15/2020
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From the Director of Studies |
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Hello all, we can begin on a festive note, this third week of term: our own Paige Allen is one of the winners of this year’s Pyne Prize. That is quite an honor, and wonderfully well deserved by one of our most generous and engaged fellow travelers. McCosh Hall is ankle-deep in virtual confetti.
Coming up this week, in the department, the Intersections Working Group Book Club, featuring Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásque, talking about her book Decolonizing Diasporas. That’s Tuesday at noon, and you can register here. In the university at large, we’re back to the mid-semester’s overwhelming menu, as you can see at the Humanities Council. Highlights, to my mind: Objectivity and the News: Reexamining Facts, Truth, and Fairness, on Tuesday; on Wednesday, Urban Speculation // Queer Resistance at the Mellon Forum.
And a topical afterword, once you have thoroughly digested all the good news between here and there.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Undergraduate Administrator
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ACADEMIC DATES & DEADLINES |
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2021
March 2021
March 3
The Next Chapter: Alumni Panel
via Zoom 4:30 p.m. EST
March 8 - 12
Spring Midterm Period
March 13-16
Spring Recess
March 17
*Classes Resume
*Undergraduate Selection of P/D/F begins
March 18
King Lear. Read. Meet. Discuss. A Common Works Event
via Zoom TBA
March 25
A.B. Concentration Declaration Period Begins
April 2021
April 1
Akira Kurosawa's Ran. View. Meet Discuss. A Common Works Event
via Zoom TBA
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
*Junior Independent Work Due
*Senior Thesis Due
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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2021
February 25, 2021
First full JP draft due to advisor
March 22, 2021
Second JP draft due
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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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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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.
Web Resources:
Support Line:
For questions not answered on any of the above websites, the Princeton University COVID Connector Support Line is available by phone at (609) 258-7000 or by email at
Please stay safe, and best wishes for a great start to the spring semester.
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Undergraduates may study in select lobbies, atria, common spaces and classrooms within select buildings:
- Aaron Burr
- East Pyne
- Friend Center
- Frist Campus Center
- Julis Romo Rabinowitz/Louis A. Simpson
- Lewis Arts complex
- Lewis Library
- McDonnell
- Robertson
- Woolworth
Within these buildings, common areas and select classrooms will be open with COVID modifications and signage indicating availability in place. Changes to the list of buildings and spaces will be posted on the University’s COVID website throughout the semester.
Undergraduates may access these buildings with their PUID cards between 6:45 a.m. and midnight each day. Graduate students may also use these spaces, and their other access to campus buildings remains unchanged.
Also effective Monday, the Library is expanding its study-browse service to all undergraduates on campus. The service allows students and faculty with active PUIDs to reserve a seat or browse the stacks at campus Library locations through a reservation system.
We are reinforcing with undergraduates that they are expected to abide by the Social Contract as well as signs directing them to wear masks, heed capacity limits, practice physical distancing and follow cleaning protocols.
The Department of Public Safety, Venue Services staff and participants in a new Community Advocates Program will monitor building usage closely. We will evaluate usage and behavior in these spaces and evaluate whether more — or fewer — spaces should be made available. Undergraduate students will be informed that violations of the Social Contract could result in revocation of their access to these academic buildings.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Paige Allen '21 recipient
of the 2021 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize
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Princeton University seniors Paige Allen, Amy Jeon and James Packman have been named co-winners of the 2021 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. . .
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Abolition: Then and Now
ENG 411: Mourning America: Emerson and Douglass
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This exhibition is centered on the theme of abolition. It is meant to illustrate the historical and conceptual relationships between the abolitionist movement in the 19th century and the one that exists today through the prism of the writings and experiences of Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through photographs, research from historical archives, and engagement with theory, each student has sought to reflect on these topics from a distinct angle. Taken together, the contributions attempt to point the way forward in the struggle for racial equality and universal liberation by encouraging us to take history seriously, learn from the insights of those who preceded us, and appreciate the unity of thinking and doing.
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On January 20, 2021, American poetry in public came back in style. We do not mean that poetry came back into fashion. . .
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Teaching with collections: 'Reading Toni Morrison'
in a virtual world
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What is it like to pore over — and even touch — the handwriting of a world-renowned author on the lined notepaper on which she drafted her famous novels? . . .
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How Fashion Can Relieve Us From the Burden of Visibility
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Sometimes you cover yourself up in order to reveal more of yourself, and sometimes the covering relieves you from being you.. . .
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The Class of 1859 Prize and the Politics of “Friendship”
by Sara Krolewski '18 , Annabel Barry '19, and Sylvie Thode '20
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Each year, the Princeton University Department of English awards the Class of 1859 prize, its highest honor, to a graduating senior. Until summer 2020, the official prize description read:. . .
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Calling all English Concentrators:
Thesis Writers and Junior Papers
English Writing Room
Sundays Spring 2021
1:30 - 4:30 p.m. EST
via Zoom
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Sunday Writing Room Zoom:
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Here and There:
Issue 4:
Gratitude & Family
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Intersections Working Group: Book Talk
Decolonizing Diasporas:
Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:00 p.m. EST
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The first 20 Princeton affiliates to register for the event below will be reimbursed for a copy of the book (Digital or Paperback) available on Amazon.com or at Northwestern University Press (links at bottom of page)
Book reimbursements can only be provided to University affiliates but the event is open to the public and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.
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Register NOW!
The Next Chapter: Alumni Panel
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. EST
via Zoom
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Join us for The Next Chapter: Alumni Conversations in the Department of English on Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:30 p.m. EST via zoom.
Registration required.
Meet former English concentrators who are now pursuing careers in the fields of law, medicine, publishing, journalism, film, theater administration, and non-profit education, when they return virtually to campus to talk with our current concentrators and prospective concentrators about their professional journeys and how majoring in English is critical to what they do now.
Our panel of Princeton University English Department alumni:
Eu Na Noh '16 (Law)
L. Driskell-Garcia '17 (Education)
Emily Silk '10 (Publishing)
Jack Lohmann '19 (Journalism)
Veronica Pickett '10 (TV/ Media)
Claire Greene '13 (Medicine)
Gunnar Rice '17 (Graduate School)
Bhaamati Borkheteria '20 (Tech)
Meet our alumni. Listen to their stories. Hear how English has served them.
Can't wait to meet this year's alums?
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Intersections Working Group presents
The Smell of Risk:
Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics by Hsuan L. Hsu
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST
via Zoom
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The first 20 Princeton affiliates to register for the event will be reimbursed for a copy of the book (Digital or Paperback) available on Amazon.com or at NY University Press (links at bottom of page)
Book reimbursements can only be provided to University affiliates but the event is open to the public and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare.
Read. Meet. Discuss.
A Common Works Event
Thursday, March 18, 2021
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
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Join graduate moderators, Lisa Kraege and Moeko Fujii to discuss this Shakespearean classic and Common Works text.
Open to current university concentrators and prospective concentrators. Class of 2022 concentrators are strongly encouraged to attend as this is connected to the Common Works.
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Akira Kurosawa's film
Ran
View. Meet. Discuss.
A Common Works Event
Thursday, April 1, 2021
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. EST
via Zoom
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Join graduate moderators, Lisa Kraege and Moeko Fujii to discuss this Shakespearean classic and Common Works text.
Open to current university concentrators and prospective concentrators. Class of 2022 concentrators are strongly encouraged to attend as this is connected to a Common Work (King Lear) .
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Intersections Working Group presents:
The Cry of the Senses and The Fact of Resonance
by Ren Ellis Neyra by Julie Beth Napolin
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST
Registration is Required
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The first 20 Princeton affiliates to register for the event below will be reimbursed for copies of the books (Digital or Paperback) available on Amazon.com or at NY University Press (links at bottom of page)
Book reimbursements can only be provided to University affiliates, but the event is open to the public and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Links to Purchase the books:
THE CRY OF THE SENSES
Amazon:
Duke University Press:
THE FACT OF RESONANCE
Amazon:
Fordham University Press:
Register for the Event Here:
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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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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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OTHER EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES |
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Presented by The Program in Journalism
Objectivity and the News:
Reexamining Facts, Truth, and Fairness
Tuesday, February 16
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. EST
via Zoom
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The Program in Journalism is excited to be holding its signature event for the semester on Feb. 16, on the future of Objectivity.
Objectivity and the News: Reexamining Facts, Truth, and Fairness
4:30 to 6 p.m. on February 16, via Zoom
Panelists:
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Rachel Donadio, Paris-based contributing writer at the Atlantic.
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Kimbriell Kelly, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Bureau Chief of The Los Angeles Times.
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Carlos Lozada, Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book critic for The Washington Post.
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Gideon Rosen, Stuart Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy.
Moderator: Joe Stephens, Director of the Program in Journalism, Ferris Professor in residence
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Careers & Majors Alumni Panel Series:
HUMANITIES
Wednesday, February 17
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. EST
Virtual
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Presented by the Center for Career Development:
Wed., February 17
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Moderated by Professor Laura Kalin, this panel will feature alumni discussing the connections between their humanities concentrations and career journeys. Learn more & register.
This is one of a three-part series, which also includes events featuring alumni who concentrated in social sciences and STEM. Students of all years, concentrations and interests are invited to attend all three events.
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Call for Submissions:
Student Original Writing & Art Work
Here and There (The Department of English's Lit Review) in collaboration with The Black Writers Workshop
Deadline: March 20, 2021
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The English Department’s literary review, Here and There, will be collaborating with Princeton’s Black Writers Workshop this spring to produce a special issue featuring Black student writing at Princeton.
Students of all years and majors are welcome to submit work through our submission dropbox. We welcome written submissions of all forms (both academic and creative) as well as visual art.
The Black Writers Workshop hosts writing workshops that will be held throughout the semester and are low-pressure and student-led. If you can’t make it to the first workshop or have any questions, please email Hailey Colborn at hcolborn@princeton.edu.
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TIME WITHIN TIME
Center for Human Values
Film Forum Spring 2021
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The Film Forum started in the fall of 2005. It is dedicated to the discussion of films that not only delight us in the spectacular ways cinema most naturally does but also leave us puzzled, challenged, unsettled, or even irritated. The films we show cry out for discussion and have afforded us on many Monday nights with the pleasure of intelligent and passionate conversation.
This forum connects the members of the Princeton public inside and outside of the University and a core audience has developed from the regularly participating students, faculty, and other Princetonians. The Film Forum provides a great opportunity to witness the intellectual talent of Princeton in action and, moreover, to engage with it.
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Spring 2021 Academic Fellowship Information Sessions
March 24 through April 17, 2021
via Zoom
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Check out the OIP Events Calendar and weekly OIP Newsletter, and like the OIP Facebook page for updates. All spring 2021 events (and advising appointments) will occur over Zoom using the links specified below.
From March 24 to April 17, we will be hosting an informal fellowships café series (on Zoom) on Wednesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. ET, featuring recent alumni and seniors speaking about their fellowships clustered around a particular focus, such as STEM, sustainability and the arts. We will post those on the OIP calendar. Students and alumni should request access to resources and recordings of taped presentations by emailing fellow@princeton.edu and request the Dropbox Fellowships Link for Spring/Summer 2021. Following each presentation, we will add updated slides and other information there.
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Call for Submissions:
The Foundationalist
Yale University's Literary Journal
March 21, 2021 Midnight Deadline.
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The Foundationalist accepts undergraduate literary essays, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. We would also be happy to accept anything that had been written for class. There are no page limits or themes. We simply want students to submit their best work! In the past, we have published works from across the globe; giving writers the opportunity to join a community of over 125+ other authors from 70+ universities. If selected, the author’s writing will be published on academia.edu and in print format.
The deadline is March 21, 2021 at midnight.
On behalf of the editorial board of The Foundationalist,
Cathy Duong and Shayley Martin
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Summer Internship Opportunity:
HomeWorks Trenton
Proposed Dates of Internship:
June 7th to July 31st, 2021
Application Due Date: Feb. 21st, 2021
Intern will be eligible for Internship Milestone Credit
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This 8-week long internship will provide the selected English major with a paid opportunity to gain experience in public service careers along with Internship Milestone Credit. Interns will work at HomeWorks Trenton in coordination with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) and the English Department at Princeton University. This opportunity is open to current junior concentrators in English and sophomores intending to declare an English concentration this spring.
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Summer 2021:
Princeton's Department of Classics
Intensive: Ancient African Language of Gəˁəz (classical Ethiopic)
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This summer, Princeton’s Department of Classics will be offering an intensive class for Princeton undergraduates and graduate students in the ancient African language of Gəˁəz (classical Ethiopic). If you are at all interested, please fill out the Google Form at https://forms.gle/mcRbjWQoYz6ve2gc6 to be updated on exactly where and when this class will happen.
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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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Humanities Council Faculty Bookshelf |
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.
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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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Center for Career Development
Spring 2021 Support!
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While our physical office may be closed, the Center for Career Development is still here to support you.
Wherever you're studying, you can access virtual advising, programs, resources, recruiting and more. The Center for Career Development serves Princeton undergraduate and graduate students of all years and interests.
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HEY! CLASS OF 2021:
CLASS DAY IS 98 DAYS AWAY!
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Mark your calendars. It's time to dig through the baby pics.
CLASS DAY 2021
May 24, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.
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Class Day 2021 is just around the corner! 98 days away!
We in the Department of English Undergraduate are already working to put together a wonderful experience to celebrate you, your family and loved ones, and your graduation.
To aid us in this, we need your help!
Please send us as jpeg/png/doc/pdf:
- Your favorite baby/ young person picture (think those photos of cuteness you, creative you, "little reader" you, or the one you like the most!)
- We've been in quarantine and socially distant, so definitely include a picture(s) of you now or recently. Please think of ones that "express you" or a photo of you that you love (and your family might too.)
- See #2 - we've all been socially distant and not on campus, SO....If you have them, please send us photos that we can share of you and other concentrators.
- We'll also be sharing a bit of what drew you to English. Please include a brief 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!
(Kindly label your files with your full name and what they are (eg: "myname_babyphoto.png" We accept pngs, jpegs, pdfs, word docs are all welcome.)
MATERIALS ARE DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021.
(this due date is 31 days away!)
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Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.
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Photo Credit: "The Lone Cypress Tree" by Trey Ratcliff 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?
Department of English
22 McCosh Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4061
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