10 August 2017 (Thu)
, 6.30-8.15PM
At Performance Hall
We have more exciting news coming your way! Ready yourself for THE Stephen Greenblatt – the distinguished Pulitzer Prize winner, Shakespearean scholar, and literary historian whose works have changed the landscape of literary criticism over the last forty years. In his lecture, Professor Greenblatt aims to connect the Bible, Renaissance li...
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10 August 2017 (Thu)
, 12.00-1.30PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
Welcome back, everyone! Hope you are as excited about the new academic year as we are, as we’re starting this semester with some awesome events! To start things off, we are honored to have Professor Ramie Targoff who will deliver a guest lecture and lead a student seminar! Professor Targoff is the co-chair of Italian...
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11 April 2017 (Tue)
, 7:30PM
At Saga Rector's Commons
Join the Literature faculty in our very first capstone symposium, to celebrate the completion of our seniors’ capstone projects and to welcome the newly declared lit majors into the family!
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15 March 2017 (Wed)
, 12:00PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
What is the relationship between poetry and politics? In this upcoming Literature WIP talk, Professor Steven Green will tackle this question by looking at the Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting, to examine how it reflects the Roman Empire during the Augustan age. Through extensive use of anthropomorphic language, the craft of hunting i...
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2 March 2017 (Thu)
, 5:00 PM
At Global Learning Room 1
Interested in the intersection of German and Anglo-American literature, aesthetics, theology and science? Then this talk is for you! Professor Gregory Maertz will deliver a talk on Goethe’s influence on British and American cultural life, and on how a literary icon can produce a cult of personality, as an exemplar worthy of emulation. Glob...
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15 February 2017 (Wed)
, 12:00PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
Literature Works-in-Progress Series presents: Prof. Gretchen Head: “Resistance to Loss through the Preservation of Form: Arabic Literary Practice in the 20th Century.” How might we read modern Arabic literature beyond the reigning opposition of tradition vs. modernity? This talk will suggest a different way to interpret the modern Ar...
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2 November 2016 (Wed)
, 12:00PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
For the fourth installment of our Literature WIP series, we are bringing you a special treat: our first student presentation! On Wednesday November 2, six students from the graduating class will give a talk on their capstone projects, covering topics from their research questions to their thoughts and motivations behind the process. Join us as...
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14 September 2016 (Wed)
, 12:00PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
Second installment of the Literature Works-in-Progress series. This time, Professor Geoff Baker will talk about how literature and art can change the world, tracing the thoughts of Emile Zola, who emphasizes clarity, and Friedrich Nietzsche, who has an ardent love for confusion. Lunch will be served!
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14 October 2016 (Fri)
, 12:00PM
At Elm Common Lounge
The Modernities and Identities Research Cluster and the Literature major invite you to attend our first research talk: Professor Philip Holden, from the English Department at NUS, will look at Raffles College (one of our earliest institutions) and discuss the value of liberal arts education in post-colonial Singapore. Lunch will be provided!
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12 October 2016 (Wed)
, 12:00PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
Please join the Literature major for our third works-in-progress talk this semester! Professor Shaoling Ma will be delivering a talk on the relation between technical media and the implications of mediation during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. Lunch will be served!
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2 September 2016 (Fri)
, 12:00PM
At Saga Common Room (RC1-02-11)
Join Professor Andrew Hui and the Literature faculty discussing his new interpretation on aphorisms, tracing their history from Heraclitus to Nietzsche, Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to Jesus. Lunch will be provided!
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13 April 2016 (Wed)
, 11:00 A.M - 12:00 P.M
At Classrom 15/TEAL Classrom (EC-01-012)
On April 13th, join us for Professor McCann’s talk on professions of childhood in 1940s New York. Sean McCann studies late-nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and its relation to contemporaneous political developments. He is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton Uni...
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11 March 2016 (Fri)
The literature faculty and students mourn the passing of our cherished teacher, colleague, and friend Barney Bate. Professor Bate was an anthropologist of South India, an expert on the political oratory, social worlds, and linguistic practices of the Tamil people. As such he was a fellow traveler in our study of languages, aesthetics, and poetic...
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10 March 2016 (Thu)
Congratulations to Prof. Petrus Liu, whose book Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Duke University Press, 2015) was just announced last night as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Founded in 1989, the Lambda Literary Awards are the most prestigious and glamorous LGBT literary event in the world. The winners will be announced at a red carpet...
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10 March 2016 (Thu)
, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
At Tan Chin Tuan Lecture Theatre
Wong Kar-wai may be considered the most mythical and stylistic Hong Kong film director of all. The lecture will explore how his Hong Kong trilogy, “Days of Being Wild (1991),” “Fallen Angels (1995),” and “In the Mood for Love (2000),” with their unconventional use of camera and visual-audio media, represents the intellectual reaction to Hong...
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5 March 2016 (Sat)
At Performance Hall
Free and open to the public. Symposium Location: Performance Hall 18 College Avenue West Yale-NUS College PLEASE NOTE SCHEDULING CHANGES—FILM AND TIME Friday, March 4th, Film Screening: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Flowers of Shanghai (1998) Screening Location: National Museum of Singapore Time: 8:00 PM Symposium Program Talks to be followed by dis...
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9 March 2016 (Wed)
, 6:00 pm
At Elm College Rector's Lounge
Come hear Professor Paul Fry of Yale convince you “Why the Literature Major is a Brilliant Choice” at Elm College Rector’s Tea.
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4 March 2015 (Wed)
, 12:30 - 1:30pm
At Classroom 17
We’ll have two Literary Advising Sessions in the next two weeks. Food + drinks will be provided. Session 1: 4 March 2016, 12-1, Classroom 17 Session 2: 11 March 2016, 6-7, Classroom 9 Come and meet our faculty, learn about their research, and ask any questions about the Literature major and our course offerings. And...
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