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A passion for works of the imagination and for thinking about what they mean and the difference they make in the world. english.princeton.edu

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Julie Beth Napolin @voicesbend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm looking forward to being a Media and Meaning Fellow at @princetonenglish.bsky.social next week. I will be giving a talk Wed 9/30 at 430pm, "Who Speaks? Narrative Acoustics and Imperial Listening from the Modernist Novel to GenAI" @fordhampress.bsky.social english.princeton.edu/events/publi...
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Who Speaks?: Narrative Acoustics and Imperial Listening from the Modernist Novel to GenAI
What does it mean to listen, and where does a voice actually take place? This lecture overviews the concept of “narrative acoustics” to argue that reading, like listening, is not a simple transmission...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 17/09/2026
Princeton remembers professor emeritus Ulrich “Uli” Knoepflmacher, "a towering scholar of Victorian fiction and poetry who brought to his subject a deep familiarity with traditions of realism, religious humanism, existential despair, culture and Romanticism."
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Ulrich Knoepflmacher, ‘towering scholar’ of Victorian fiction, poetry and children’s literature, dies at 95
Knoepflmacher's research interests included Victorian literature and culture, English and American children’s books, 19th-century poetry and the English novel. He was among the first to recognize the ...
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Kinohi Nishikawa @kinohi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The chapbook as one of the most intriguing, if overlooked, formats for critical-creative writing. Juliana Spahr's SPIDERWASP OR LITERARY CRITICISM (Spectacular Books, 1998), signed copy 19 of 100. www.typepunchmatrix.com/pages/books/...
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SPIDERWASP OR LITERARY CRITICISM by Juliana Spahr on Type Punch Matrix
New York : Spectacular Books, 1998 . First edition. Signed limited edition chapbook from this acclaimed, Pulitzer-winning poet, published by Katy Lederer's small press. Near fine. Item #56078 ISBN: 09...
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Department of English, Princeton University @princetonenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Menon previewed "Speaking Parts" methods and "Middlemarch" section for the Princeton English Victorian Colloquium this past April 1: english.princeton.edu/news/convers...
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Conversation and colloquium with Tara Menon
Tara Menon presented in the April 1 Victorian Colloquium on the critical work in her forthcoming monograph. At lunchtime, she spoke about and read from her debut novel.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How direct speech in the novel shapes our understanding of literary characters and their social worlds. Speaking Parts by Tara Menon is now available! Learn more: buff.ly/uBsaPcY #Speech #Literature
Speaking Parts: Conversation, Character, and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century British Novels by Tara Menon
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Department of English, Princeton University @princetonenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Next Mon, Sep 14, join us for the first Princeton English-hosted event of the fall, Günter Leypoldt in conversation with Juliana Spahr, English's Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor (fall 2026), to discuss his latest book, Literature’s Social Lives tinyurl.com/gunter-juliana
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Intersections Working Group: 'Literary Value and Institutional Ethnography'
Join Günter Leypoldt, in conversation with Juliana Spahr, to discuss his latest book, Literature’s Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value (Oxford UP, 2025).Literature’s Social L...
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Department of English, Princeton University @princetonenglish.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Read on for Stephanie Gomes's (Rowan College of South Jersey) accounts of taking courses taught by English professors Sophie Gee and Kinohi Nishikawa, concluding with theater professor Stacy Wolf's 'The Broadway Musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim,' an English cross-listed course.
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Kinohi Nishikawa @kinohi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Society for Novel Studies 2027: "Novel Geographies" at University of British Columbia, May 13-16. Join me and Kimberly Bain (UBC) for a seminar on BLAKE; OR, THE HUTS OF AMERICA, Martin R. Delany's transatlantic Black nationalist serial narrative. snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca/novel-peripa...
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Novel & Peripatetic Seminars - Society for Novel Studies Conference
Novel Seminars are intended to return us to the pleasures of classroom discussion. Participants will read the novel in advance, and then gather to discuss it, led by two people who know the novel well...
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