Caribbean Reading Group
The Caribbean Reading Group is a multi-disciplinary faculty and graduate reading group co-founded in 2007 by faculty in English and History. The group meets once a semester to discuss classic or significant new texts in Caribbean Studies, sometimes with the authors or guest-scholars present. Contact Shalini Puri at spuri@pitt.edu for more information.
Cluster in African American Literary and Culture Studies
Faculty research cluster in African American Literary and Culture Studies.
Digital Media Reading Group
The Digital Media Reading Group was created to bring together faculty and students from literature, composition studies, and film studies who share research interests in digital media and technology. We read contemporary scholarship in digital media studies as well as foundational works on theories of computing, mediation, communication, and technology. The reading group meets at least once per semester. Contact Annette Vee at annettevee@pitt.edu for more information.
Medieval Latin Reading Group
The Medieval Latin Reading Group is sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and the Humanities Center. It is open to graduate students and faculty (and advanced undergraduates) in the Pittsburgh community. We are currently reading Fasciculus Morum, a fourteenth-century preaching manual. We meet every other Tuesday from 3-5 p.m. One hour is devoted to prepared reading, the other to sight reading. Contact Ryan McDermott at mcdermott.pitt@gmail.com for more information.
Summer Reading Groups
Summer Reading Groups: The English Graduate Student Organization helps facilitate summer reading groups each year on topics students propose in the spring. Recent groups coordinated by literature students include science fiction, Native American literature, the American novel, postmodernism, magical realism, literature pedagogy, science and literature, humor, Marxist theory, body studies, food and culture, Badiou, Infinite Jest, Finnegans Wake, and postcolonial literature.