English majors must attend English department colloquia during their academic careers. The department will offer an average of three colloquia every semester and may occasionally designate a non-departmental colloquium as qualifying for this requirement.
Sign-in sheets will be at all English department colloquia, and attendance records will be kept in the English department office. It is the student's responsibility to sign in at each event they attend, and to keep track of their progress toward fulfilling this requirement. Information on colloquium attendance can be accessed in the English department office.
Among the new and ever-changing list of speakers and presenters, visiting authors and inspiring lecturers are annual events in the English department (dear and recurring friends on the colloquium schedule): The List, What Can You Do With an English Major?, and the Literary Pub Fest.
to download English Department Event Google Calendar
Colloquia Schedule Fall 2022
Tuesday, September 20
English FALL FEST
4:00 pm in Ness Auditorium and Hollenbeck Atrium
NOTE: colloquium credit not offered for this event
Friday, November 11
Novelist Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Book talk & reading of Before All the World
4:30 pm in Ness Auditorium
Colloquia Schedule Spring 2023
Wednesday, January 25
Tim McCarthy, '02
From English Major to Entrepreneur
4:00pm in Ness Auditorium
Friday, February 17
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich '00
Q&A/Colloquium at 3:30pm in Ness Auditorium
Koppenhaver Lecture at 7:00pm in Bayley Auditorium
Friday, April 21
Senior Symposium in Hollenbeck Hall
Date TBD
Literary Pub Fest and Creative Writing Capstone Reading
Time TBD in Founder's Pub