Trinity English Department

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[Andrew Porter @AndrewPorter01]

So excited to be moderating this panel with Cristina Henríquez and Ben Fountain at the @SABookFestival this Saturday! 4 PM. Come out and see us!

[Trinity University Humanities Collective @HumanitiesTU]

Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow, April 10th for the next Maverick Book Club meeting. Our very own Jenny Browne will be discussing poetry that explores themes of beauty, hope, racism, immigration, and place in a state that is a beautiful and sad paradox of space and meaning.

[Trinity University Humanities Collective @HumanitiesTU]

This Thursday, April 11, the Madrid Lecture Series will be hosting Sandra Cisneros’ lecture, Keepikg San Antonio Lamé: My Life Among los Artistas. This event will take place at 7PM in Laurie Auditorium.

[Trinity English Department @TrinityEnglish5]

@AndrewPorter01 @AAKnopf Congrats, Professor Porter!!

[Andrew Porter @AndrewPorter01]

Absolutely thrilled to share this news! And so excited to know this novel will be out in the world next year, and so delighted to get to work again with the brilliant Diana Tejerina Miller at @AAKnopf!!

[Trinity University Humanities Collective @HumanitiesTU]

The Humanities Collective invites you to attend a reading and conversation between acclaimed writers Elizabeth McCracken and Deb Olin Unferth on Thursday, Feb. 29, at 8 p.m. in Dicke Hall Mabee Auditorium. The reading will be followed by a book signing and reception.

[Andrew Porter @AndrewPorter01]

San Antonio, This is happening next Thus, Feb 29 at 8 PM at Trinity! Come hear the brilliant @elizmccracken and Deb Olin Unferth read and chat about their work! Book signing & reception to follow. Free & open to all! Sponsored by Stieren Arts Enrichment Series & @TrinityEnglish5

[Trinity University Humanities Collective @HumanitiesTU]

The 2024 Álvarez Seminar Series is here! See playwright/director Octavio Solis this Thurs, 2/22, at 6pm in the Holt Center, and Edit Villarreal & José Cruz González on Fri, 3/8, at 4pm in Dicke Hall 104.

[Trinity English Department @TrinityEnglish5]

Our new Department name?

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

https://t.co/WdrCmvLHyA

📷: Beth Garrabrant

[Trinity University Humanities Collective @HumanitiesTU]

Join us on October 27th as the Humanities Collective co-hosts Humanities Day with CELCS! Are you curious about the potential of your humanities degree? Be sure to join us for the Humanities Day panel and reception on Friday, Oct. 27, between 3 and 4 p.m. at Dicke Hall, room 104.

[Trinity English Department @TrinityEnglish5]

We're so proud of you, Professor Porter! Congratulations!!!!

[Andrew Porter @AndrewPorter01]

Grateful for this generous review in @nytimesbooks !

“A quietly astonishing collection…These stories are cleareyed and unadorned, invested with just as much authority as they require to do their appointed work, like a row of votive candles in the dark recess of a church.”

[Andrew Porter @AndrewPorter01]

Grateful for this generous review in @nytimesbooks !

“A quietly astonishing collection…These stories are cleareyed and unadorned, invested with just as much authority as they require to do their appointed work, like a row of votive candles in the dark recess of a church.”

[Trinity English Department @TrinityEnglish5]

Apply to be Co-Editor of the Trinity Review.

[Trinity English Department @TrinityEnglish5]

TODAY!

[Trinity University Humanities Collective @HumanitiesTU]

Univ of Houston writing professor and TU Press author Peter Turchi speaks on campus this Thurs 4/13 at 6pm in Mabee Auditorium, DH 104. Come see "one of the country's foremost thinkers on the art of writing," according to the Houston Chronicle.

[Trinity English Department @TrinityEnglish5]

RUN, DON'T WALK, TO THIS AMAZING READING BY OUR VERY OWN PROFESSOR PORTER.

[Andrew Porter @AndrewPorter01]

My BOOK LAUNCH for The Disappeared will be happening next Tuesday (April 11) at @Trinity_U! If you live in San Antonio (or nearby), I hope you can make it! And please help spread the word! Sponsored by @HumanitiesTU @TrinityEnglish5 & several other depts.