• Postponed Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

    A Clark Faculty Series Event Presented by Elizabeth Blake, PhD Assistant Professor of English Clark University Forbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality, a […]

  • Chowder Fest

    English House

    The English Department cordially invites you to Chowder Fest!

  • Bring Your Own Lunch English Conversation Table

    ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

    Come by the ALCI Lounge (Jonas Clark 208) between 12 and 1 o’clock to have lunch with fellow students and staff, and practice speaking English. Though you have to bring […]

  • A/An: Book Launch and Poetry Reading

    Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge

    In this book launch, Professor Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez reads from their poetry chapbook. A/An, which uses 17th-century court records of the Salem Witch Trials to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.

  • Bring Your Own Lunch English Conversation Table

    ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

    Come by the ALCI Lounge (Jonas Clark 208) between 12 and 1 o’clock to have lunch with fellow students and staff, and practice speaking English. Though you have to bring […]

  • ALCI Orientation Spring 2025

    ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

    Incoming ALCI students are welcome to join us for our Spring 2025 Orientation.

  • The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    Nathan Braccio, Assistant Professor of History at Clark University, explores how both Algonquian-speaking communities and English colonists made maps as tools in a struggle for cultural and physical control of the Northeast.

  • Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    In this talk, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake (English) focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience.

  • Fishers, Foragers and Fine Diners

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor

    Ben Jamieson Stanley from the University of Delaware will discuss their recent book, “Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm” focused on fisheries and foraging as a point of entry to South Africa’s Western Cape, where bustling culinary and environmental tourism coincide with hunger and stratification.