Mobile Reading Marathon: Virginia Woolf
Marah Gubar, Associate Professor of Literature
| Jan/31 | Tue | 09:00AM-09:30AM | 14E-304, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
| Jan/31 | Tue | 09:30AM-10:30AM | 10-340, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
| Jan/31 | Tue | 10:35AM-11:15AM | Lobby 7, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
| Jan/31 | Tue | 11:20AM-01:00PM | 3-310, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
| Jan/31 | Tue | 01:10PM-02:00PM | Barker Media Room, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
| Jan/31 | Tue | 02:10PM-02:50PM | Music Library, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
| Jan/31 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Stella Room 7-338, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
“I can’t bear lecturing,” wrote Virginia Woolf, as she struggled to produce the text of what would eventually become A Room of One’s Own (1929), “it takes ages, and I do it vilely.” Written to be read amidst the domes and towers of a prestigious university by a river, Woolf’s luminous meditation on how creative minds work (and what impedes their full flourishing) explores what it means that minds inhabit bodies, and bodies inhabit particular spaces and times.
Hoping to bring some extra warmth to the icy days of IAP, the Literature Section invites you to bask in the “the rich yellow flame of rational intercourse”: to join us as we read aloud Woolf’s brilliant, self-questioning, unconventional essay in its entirety, in different locations around the MIT campus linked to the ones that Woolf describes in Room.
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” Come from start to finish, or just drop by for a little while; all are welcome. Books, good fellowship, and refreshment provided. After all, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Tweet as you participate: #ROOMatMIT
Sponsor(s): Literature
Contact: Chloe Jones, 14N-407, 617 258-5629, CJJONES@MIT.EDU
Pleasures of Poetry 2017
Noel Jackson, Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This popular activity – which aims to reach all lovers of poetry – has been offered every IAP for the last twenty years. Each one-hour session is devoted to a single poet, usually a single poem. The goal is discussion and shared pleasure. No lectures or professorial arrogance allowed. Some participants attend every session, but many others attend only once or twice to read and discuss a favorite poet or poem. The roster of poets is always immensely diverse: from ancient Chinese masters to contemporary American poets laureate, from such famous Greats as Shakespeare, Keats, and Auden to Dr. Seuss and Bob Dylan. Discussion and collaborative close readings are the aim and ideal of each hour.
Join us for this month-long series as we study and enjoy the scope of poetry with the rest of the MIT community.
Visit lit.mit.edu to view our full POP 2017 calendar and selection of poems
Sponsor(s): Literature
Contact: Chloe Jones, 14N-407, 617 258-5629, CJJONES@MIT.EDU
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Herman Melville, "The House-top (A Night Piece, 1863)"
Wyn Kelley - Moderator, Senior Lecturer of Literature
| Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Geoffrey Hill "Respublica"; "Ovid in the Third Reich"; "On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell"
Daniel Pritchard - Moderator
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Wislawa Szymborska "Lot's Wife"; "A Contribution to Statistics"
Rosemary Booth - Moderator
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Rafael Alberti "Open Letter"
Zachary Bos - Moderator
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
T.S. Eliot "Preludes"
James Buzard - Moderator, Professor & Interim Head of Literature
| Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Adrienne Rich "Origins and History of Consciousness" & "Power"
Anne Hudson - Moderator
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
W.H. Auden "Musée des Beaux Arts"; "Lullaby"
Howard Eiland - Moderator
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Nightingale"
Noel Jackson - Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Rosemary Tonks "The Sash Window"; "Apprentice"; "Diary of a Rebel"
Stephen Pepper - Moderator
| Jan/23 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
John Dryden "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"
James Merrill "Angel"
Robert Creeley "Water Music"
Robert Pinsky "Street Music"
Martin Marks - Moderator, Senior Lecturer of Music & Theater Arts
| Jan/24 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
George Gascoigne "Gasgoigne's Lullaby"
David Thorburn - Moderator, Professor of Literature & founder of POP
| Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Pearl (trans. MB & SA)
Arthur Bahr - Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
| Jan/26 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
a selection of anonymous sonnets
Alvin Kibel - Moderator, Professor of Literature
| Jan/27 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Robert Frost "The Gift Outright"
Ana Schwartz - Moderator, Predoctoral Fellow of Literature Section
| Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Stephen Tapscott - Professor of Literature
| Feb/01 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Alice Walker "Be Nobody's Darling"
Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool"
Sandy Alexandre - Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
| Feb/02 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Elizabeth Bishop "Pink Dog" & "The Shampoo"
Joaquin Terrones - Moderator, Lecturer of Literature
| Feb/03 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Ranjit Bhatnagar, Pentametron (Twitter)
Nick Montfort - Moderator, Associate Professor of Digital Media
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