Graduate Colloquia

Welcome to the English Department Graduate Colloquia!

What We Do

The English Department Graduate Colloquia meet regularly, usually on a bi-weekly basis. Colloquium meetings might include invited talks by established scholars in the field; workshops of dissertation chapters, prospectuses, or article drafts; discussions of recent publications in the field; or professionalization workshops. Colloquium events also regularly draw audiences from the greater Cambridge/Boston area. Students in the graduate program are encouraged to attend any or all of them with any degree of regularity, regardless of their primary field(s) of interest. See individual colloquium pages on the left sidebar for detailed information about upcoming events. You can also subscribe to individual colloquium mailing lists by contacting the coordinators listed below.

Who We Are

Medieval Colloquium

Coordinators: Joseph Shack and Andrew Maxwell

Faculty Sponsors: Nicholas Watson, Daniel Donoghue, Anna Wilson

Renaissance Colloquium

Coordinator: Victoria Pipas

Faculty Sponsors: Stephen Greenblatt, Gordon Teskey, Leah Whittington

Long Twentieth Century Colloquium

Coordinators:  Jeffrey Careyva, Shalisa James, Manan Kapoor

Faculty Sponsors: Kelly Mee Rich, Sarah Dimick

Theater & Performance Colloquium

Coordinators: Eunice Lee, Sarah Gonzalez

Faculty Sponsors: Ju Yon Kim, Derek Miller, Martin Puchner

Race & Ethnicity Colloquium

Coordinators: Jordan Taliha McDonald, Wyatt Sarafin

Faculty Sponsors: Glenda Carpio, Jesse McCarthy

18th Century & Romanticism Colloquium

On hiatus