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For our first Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📕 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov This book was challenged for sexually explicit content 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

For our second Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📙 Divergent by Veronica Roth This YA book was challenged for content featuring violence, death, and resisting authority. 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

Spring Course! What did liberty mean to writers and readers in the early modern period? One of our greatest English poets, John Milton, redefined the meanings of political, domestic, and religious liberty as he lived through an age of revolution. 16th – 18th Century Time Period.

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series continues tomorrow, November 8 at 6:00pm, with novelist Stephen Graham Jones. The reading will be in Foster Auditorium, Penn State Libraries, and is free and open to the public. 🎤 creativewriting.psu.edu/2022/10/17/mar… Penn State College of the Liberal Arts

The Department of English houses a 5-year integrated undergraduate–graduate program in creative writing. On Friday, 11/11, 6-7pm, creative writing faculty and current BA/MA students will host an informational meeting in 102 Burrowes. More information here: creativewriting.psu.edu/2022/10/26/ba-…

“As my first semester goes on, I’m learning that it’s okay to ask people for help, even though I’m the first generation in my family to attend college.” –Sierra Auman, a first-year student majoring in Penn State English Penn State Student Success Center PSU Undergrad Ed Penn State #PSUFirstGen

“Make a plan, stay organized, and achieve your goals!”–Julius Ludena (Julian Le), an undergraduate student majoring in Penn State English #PSUFirstGen

For our first Banned Book Friday recommendation of the week, we have... 📕 Beloved by Toni Morrison Reasons for the book challenges include LGBTQIA+ content, themes of race, and divisive language 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

For our next Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📘 No Easy Walk to Freedom featuring writing by Nelson Mandela Every book has a place on our shelves 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

For our last Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📙 Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere The text has been banned in some regions of South Africa, Latin America, and even in Arizona 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

Spring Course! ENGL 487W: Travel to the ends of the earth in the senior seminar Literature of Polar Voyaging with Hester Blum! Students will read speculative hollow earth fiction, poetry, expedition narratives, and other journeys to the North and South pole. Penn State College of the Liberal Arts

Look out! Micha McConnell is taking over our Instagram account. Follow along as Micha McConnell shares their @PennStateEnglish experience.

🆕 Introducing… a new initiative! In this initiative, we are going to be highlighting current graduate students’ dissertations within the English department! Be on the lookout 👀 as our first highlight rolls out tomorrow! #grad #english #elevatorpitch

Happening tonight! #GraphicNovel

🧊A great read on fieldwork, polar-region humanities, Academic Twitter, and several other topics. 🧊

Today, we are sharing a new initiative: exploring graduate students’ dissertations within the English Department! Here, we introduce you to Pheolyn Allen! Watch the video to learn more about their dissertations ideas and research through the form of an elevator pitch!

Head to Dublin, Galway, and The Burren this summer (6/19-7/22) with #pennstateenglish & PSU Arts&Arch. There’ll be workshops in dyeing, craft, art, farming, and poetry through the lens of sustainability. Students can earn 9 credits at the Gen Ed level or for upper-level courses.