Events
Events
For a list of all English department events, please visit the English department events calendar page.
The English department regularly sponsors esteemed literary speakers to enlighten us with their new works. Unless otherwise noted, all speaker events are free and open to the public.
Invited Speakers
The Departments of English, Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Biology cordially invite you to attend a very special event:
TIM DEAN (SUNY, Buffalo)
"Who Wants To Live Forever?
Henrietta Lacks and the Biopolitics of Immortality"
Thursday, May 7
2:10 - 4:00 PM
Building 53, Room 215 (Science North Building)
Tim Dean is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY, Buffalo, where he is also Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture. He has written extensively on issues of sexuality, including several books: Beyond Sexuality (2000), Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (with Christopher Lane, 2001), and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009). His most recent book, co-edited with David Squires and Cal Poly's Steven Ruszczycky, is Porn Archives (2014).
Professor Dean is one of the most important, provocative, and widely read voices in contemporary queer theory, whose work synthesizes psychoanalytic, historical, ethnographic, and scientific approaches to the field of sexuality. Dean's work also explores the aesthetics of sexuality - as well as the sexuality of aesthetics - across genres, from modernist poetry to pornography. His talk on Henrietta Lacks and "the biopolitics of immortality" promises to challenge students and faculty working in the humanities and the life sciences to discover new ways in which their fields of inquiry intersect and speak to one another. Please join us for what will surely be an exciting event.
For more information, please contact Dr. Ryan Hatch at rahatch@calpoly.edu.
The English Department puts on different workshops to help prepare students for their future career goals. These events are for English majors only and often network with successful Cal Poly alumni.
Workshops
There are currently no workshops planned - please check back!