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Celebrating Earth Month, the ASU Book Group’s April 2027 selection is the nonfiction history book, “The Garden: Our Four-Thousand-Year Quest for Paradise” by literary scholar Jonathan Bate, ASU Regents Professor of English and environmental humanities (The College/College of Global Futures).
Commemorating Women’s History Month, the ASU Book Group’s March 2027 selection is the historical novel, “Eve” by fiction writer B.K. O'Connor, an ASU graduate (MA English ’23).
It’s Arizona’s birth month, and the ASU Book Group’s February 2027 selection is a look at the 48th state’s early days, “Tumbleweed Underworld: A Saga of Morphine and Mayhem in the Arizona Territory” by historian Eduardo Pagán, the Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History at ASU’s West Valley campus.
Celebrating America250 with a nod to Emily Dickinson, the ASU Book Group has selected two books for November 2026: The prose poetry collection, “Emily’s Advice for Girls in the New Millennium” by ASU literary scholar and Phoenix poet laureate Rosemarie Dombrowski, and “The Essential Emily Dickinson,” the Arizona NEA Big Read edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Join us for an AI-Focused Expo | A platform for faculty, students, and researchers to showcase their work in artificial intelligence through interactive demos, research posters, and project presentations. The event highlights AI applications across various disciplines, offering insights into current research, technological advancements, and implementations.
Thomas Jefferson, famous for authoring the Declaration of Independence, is also infamous for his owning slaves. Far less known is the role Jefferson played in inspiring and preserving the abolitionist movement and his role in the ultimate passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. The talk will explore not only the explosive language of the Declaration, but also Jefferson's role in banning slavery in the Northwest Territory and in his providing the language that constitutionally abolished chattel slavery.
Just in time for spooky season, the ASU Book Group's October 2026 reading selection is the haunting novel “A Harvest of Furies” by fiction writer Hayden Casey, an ASU graduate (MFA creative writing ’22) and instructor in the Department of English.
Walter Isaacson has spent his career illuminating the lives of history's most influential innovators and visionaries through bestselling biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Elon Musk, and many others. His newest work, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, turns his attention to a different kind of genius- exploring how a single sentence can capture profound truths about humanity, creativity, and the enduring power of words.
Participants move through Romania in a fast-paced, interactive experience that brings together language, culture and environment across five regional stations (staffed by students). Each stop offers a short, hands-on activity designed to make cultural knowledge immediate, accessible and engaging.