Fall 2025 English Department Colloquium Schedule
[As always, please be on the lookout for messages about adjustments/additions.]
All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursdays in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified. Unusual dates, times, and
venues are in bold.
Colloquia will be held in person unless otherwise specified.
August 28 Department Meeting
September 4 Confronting GenAI in our Courses
Sarah Allen, Anna Feuerstein, and Taylor Marty
September 11 Rank Meetings
September 18 1:30 pm Crystal Hana Kim (EALL and W@M)
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
September 25 Department Meeting (with Peter Arnade)
6:30 pm Rebecca Solnit (Better Tomorrows Speaker Series and W@M)
Orvis Auditorium, registration required
October 2 Eugenia Zuroski, “Ludic Reading; or, A Method for Wrestling with Angels.”
October 9 Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright, Interim Associate Vice Provost for Student Success
and Dean of Students, “From Personality to Pedagogy: Understanding First-Year
Students and Shaping First-Year Writing Courses”
October 16 Donald Carreira Ching and representatives Amy Perruso and Della Au Belatti,
“Blood Work: A Reading and Talk Story”
October 23 Department Meeting
October 30 12:00 pm Jack Taylor, “Tensions in Survivor Narratives from Rwanda: Life-Writing and
Memory” (Center for Biographical Research and English)
Cathy Linh Che, “Becoming Ghost: A Reading and Conversation” (W@M)
November 6 Works in Progress
November 13 Department Meeting
November 20 Hold
November 27 Thanksgiving Break
December 4 Report from Department Website Migration/Promotion Team
Friday, December 12 Fall Reception. 12:00 pm