Events and Announcements

Recent Events

Three free lectures at Vassar in September feature influential literary critic, James Wood, poet Li-Young Lee, and novelist Mark Sarvas, September 2008

This September Vassar’s English Department will present three lectures of note, that are free and open to the public. Click for more info

The Actors from the London Stage, offer a free performance of Shakespeare�s "The Winter�s Tale," September 18, 2008

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY—The 2008 program, “Actors from the London Stage,” will feature five British Shakespearean artists from such companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare’s... Click for more info

West Point English professor and author Elizabeth Samet to discuss teaching literature to future soldiers. Wednesday, March 26, 2008

U.S. Military Academy English professor Elizabeth Samet, author of the 2007 New York Times Notable Book Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, will discuss aspects of her teaching and writing on Wednesday, March 26, at 5:30 p.m., in Sanders Classroom Auditorium (Room 212). This event is free and open to the public. Click for more info

One-woman show will celebrate famed Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston. Saturday, March 1, 2008

Stage and screen actress Kim Brockington will star in Zora, a one-woman play about the life of the great Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, on Saturday, March 1, at 7:00pm, in the Martel Theater of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film. Click for more info

Author Lydia Davis, Vassar's Writer-in-Residence, to give reading. Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Lydia Davis, the 2007-2008 Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College, will read from her highly praised new short story collection, "Varieties of Disturbance," and from other works, on Wednesday, February 6, at 5:30 P.M. in Sanders Classroom Building, Room 212. Acclaimed for their brevity and humor, many of Davis's stories defy traditional narrative conventions, borrowing the styles of philosophy and poetry. Her reading is free and open to the public. Click for more info