Fall 2018
August 31st Last day to drop or add courses.
September 10th Lunch Table: Cheri Buck-Perry (expert on networks of food, modes of resistance, and early 20th c. women writers) & Fr. Pat Hannon (multiply published writer of creative nonfiction and Christie Pastoral Resident), 12:15pm @ Bauccio Commons.
September 13th Tickets on sale for Everybody Reads 2019: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Celebrate her novel Americanah and her essay We Should All Be Feminists March 14th, 7:30pm @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
September 24th Last day to apply for the NUCL internship | Lunch Table: Dr. Hiro (American lit.) & Dr. Hersh (British Lit.), 12:15pm @ Bauccio Commons.
October 1st Last Day to apply for a spring Degree | Submission Deadline for the Northwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities in Coeur D’Alene, ID. For more information, including how to submit a paper and register for the conference, please visit the conference website or contact Conference Director Nikole King at nikole.king@nic.edu or (208)625-2353.
October 8th Readings & Lectures Series: nonfiction writer Paul Collins, 7:30pm @ UP Bookstore
October 10th English Major/Minor Social hosted by the English Honors Society Sigma Tau Delta 7pm @ Franz 120
October 15th-19th Fall Break
October 19th Deadline for submissions to the fall zine for Collision Literary Magazine at University of Pittsburgh. Students who are currently working or have worked a job in the past year are eligible to submit to the zine, which features writing and black-and-white visual art from student workers. Send undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art submissions to collision.pitt@gmail.com with your student email, class year, and genre. For inspiration and guidelines click here.
October 30th Lunch Table: TBA
November 1st Readings & Lectures Series: novelist Omar El Akkad, 7pm @ Buckley Auditorium
November 6th-9th Seniors & Juniors: Spring Registration
November 10th Portland Book Festival, 9am-6pm @ Portland Art Museum & Other Venues
November 12th-15th Sophomores & Freshmen: Spring Registration
November 14th Readings & Lectures Series: poet Matthew Minicucci, 7:30pm @ UP Bookstore
November 21st Last day to withdraw from courses, change pass/no pass
November 22nd & 23rd Thanksgiving Break (begins 4pm Wed, Nov. 21st)
December 7th Last Day of Classes
December 10th-13th Semester Exams
December 14th Winter Break Begins, Residence Halls Close
Spring 2019
January 14th Semester Begins
February 22nd Deadline for submissions to Collision Literary Magazine at the University of Pittsburgh. Send undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art submissions to collision.pitt@gmail.com with your student email, class year, and genre.For inspiration and guidelines click here.
March 14th Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Everybody Reads author event, 7:30pm @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall