News - English Department - Vassar College

The E. Elizabeth Dana Reading Prize Submissions Due April 18

If you are interested in competing for the Dana Prize, submit a typed copy of your proposal and your reading list to the English Department Office by 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 18. Include your name, class, college box number and summer address. Students who do not submit such a proposal in the Spring cannot be considered for the prize in the Fall.

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Prizes 2018

The following is a list of the prize competitions sponsored each spring by the Department of English. A list of these competitions is posted on the bulletin board outside the department office and on the department's website.

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Advanced Creative Writing, Narrative: Writing Samples Due by March 26th

If you wish to be considered for admission to this course, please submit a copy of your writing samples electronically in Microsoft Word Doc., not Doc X, to email address almateer@vassar.edu no later than 3:00 pm, Monday, March 26, 2018. Please submit one or two completed stories. Feel free to use papers you have written for other courses.

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Virginia Konchan to read excerpts from two recently published books, The End of Spectacle, and Anatomical Gift, on April 26, 2018

American poet and Marist professor Virginia Konchan will read excerpts from two of her recently published books, The End of Spectacle, and Anatomical Gift, on Thursday, April 26, at 6:00pm in Taylor Hall, Room 203. This event is free and open to the public.

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Actors from the London Stage perform THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, April 5 – 7, 2018

Actors from The London Stage via University of Notre Dame 2018 Residency Program present a three-night production run of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW from April 5 – 7 at 8:00 pm at the Martel Theater, VCDF

Announcement Posted 3/28/2018

A reading by Writer-in-Residence, Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss, winner of the Man Booker Prize, on April 10, 2018

Kiran Desai, Writer-in-Residence and author of The Inheritance of Loss, will read excerpts from her work on Tuesday, April 10 at 6:00pm in Sanders Classroom, Spitzer Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

Announcement Posted 3/27/2018

Bestselling Author David Shields in Conversation with English Professor Amitava Kumar on March 28, 2018

David Shields, the internationally bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger, will be in conversation with Vassar English Professor Amitava Kumar on Wednesday, March 28 at 6:00pm in Taylor Hall, Room 203. This event is free and open to the public.

Announcement Posted 3/8/2018