Essay Week

This week-long celebration of the essay genre brings together scholars and practitioners of the form for a range of lectures, conversations, and experimental activities. To celebrate the release of The Cambridge History of the American Essay, this series of events pays tribute to the richness and variety of the essayistic spirit across centuries, continents, and cultures.

Find the latest information on the Department of French and Italian website.

Essay Week is presented by the Department of French and Italian with support from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and is co-sponsored by the Department of German, IHUM, the Program in Journalism, the Princeton Public Library, the Department of Comparative Literature, European Cultural Studies, and the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

Organizer: Christy Wampole, Princeton University

Participants:

• Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University
• Nora Alter, Temple University
• Ted Anton, De Paul University
• Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire
• Andrea Capra, New York University
• Shawn Anthony Christian, Florida International University
• Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker
• Jeff Dolven, Princeton University
• William Dow, The American University of Paris
• Jeffrey Dudas, University of Connecticut
• Anne Finger, writer
• Florian Fuchs, Princeton University
• Denise Gigante, Stanford University
• Emily Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books
• Tom Huhn, School of Visual Arts, NYC
• Carolina Iribbaren, Princeton University
• Lawrence Kritzman, Dartmouth College
• John Michael, University of Rochester
• Walton Muyumba, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University
• David Sloane, University of New Haven
• Jenny Spinner, Saint Joseph’s University
• Julien Stout, Princeton University
• Hertha Sweet-Wong, University of California, Berkeley
• Eleni Theodoropoulos, Johns Hopkins
• Salamishah Tillet, Rutgers University-Newark