English Department Events

Wendy Chen’s “Their Divine Fires”

Wendy Chen, author of the poetry collection Unearthings, the novel Their Divine Fires (which came out this past Spring on May 7th, 2024, with Algonquin Books), and a book-length translation of Song-dynasty woman writer Li Qingzhao called The Magpie at Night (forthcoming from Farra, Straus & Giroux in 2025), visited Clark University for a reading…

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English Department Events, Writing

Reflection on Vandana Singh’s Chapbook Reading and Workshop

Vandana Singh’s reading and workshop on November 17th granted us listening participants to an amorphous network of possibility in fiction. Through language, Singh ravels and unravels threads of science and society on multiple scales. Her abstract and interdisciplinary work is grounded in a few concrete representations of objects that funnel out of complex social and…

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English Department Events

Chowder Fest Fall 2023

Nearly 100 people gathered for the English Department’s annual “Chowder Fest” celebration on November 7th at 5:45pm. This was the largest attendance that the English House has had for this event in years! Audience members were seated all throughout the house, gathered around eating, while listening to the wise words of our speakers. Three different…

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English Department Events

Nuoc 2030 Screening and Talk

On October 24th, Professor Steve Levin and the Higgins School of Humanities invited Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh known as Minh Nguyen-Vo to Clark University for the screening and talk-back of his film, Nước 2030 which was released in 2014. Professor Levin opened the screening with an introduction about Minh Nguyen-Vo. “Minh was born in Saigon,…

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English Department News

Dr. Spencer Tricker’s Summer Research Reflection

Please read Dr. Tricker’s reflection below about his research this summer in Los Angeles. Among his many exciting activities, he was the keynote lecturer at a conference. … This summer, I spent five weeks at the Huntington Library in LA as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation short-term fellow. While there, I worked on two projects.…

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