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In-Person Events this Fall!

English Society is eager to welcome students back to campus and resume monthly book discussions and other informal events - please join us and bring your friends who love books - all are welcome!

Afternoon Tea

Bring your own mug or teacup and join English majors/minors and faculty bi-weekly for coffee, tea, and informal conversation. Our September Afternoon Teas will be held in the Marist Annex Conference Room on Wednesday, October 6th and 20th from 1-2pm.  

Book Discussion: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Monthly book discussions are a long-standing tradition for English Society and are open to all members of the CUA community, as well as undergraduate and graduate alumni.  

Monday, October 18th, 8-9pm in Pryz 351: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories

2021-2022 Reading List

FALL
Translations, Brian Friel
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

SPRING
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
 
For more information about English Society

Please visit our website, join the "CUA English Society" Facebook group, or follow the English department on Twitter. Alumna Isabelle Rosini also wrote about English Society in the January 2019 issue of The Annex.