Event details
Mar
16
Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
Join us for a conversation between Sarah Mesle and Jeff Dolven about Mesle’s new book, Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now. They will discuss what humanities writing can do both within and beyond the halls of the university. Mesle’s book offers a passionate defense of humanistic writing and the communities it inspires. Whether you are finishing your dissertation, revising your first book manuscript, or publishing in magazines, we welcome you to a discussion about the sustaining capacity of what Mesle calls humanists’ “expressions of excellently nerdy granular attention.”
Speakers
Sarah Mesle
Jeff Dolven
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Date
March 16, 2026Time
4:30 p.m.Location
Aaron Burr Hall, 219Audience
University Sponsors
Princeton Humanities Initiative and the Department of English. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.