02/23/2022 - Alex Shakar is professor in the Department of English. He’s an invaluable member of the Creative Writing Program and has appeared...
Department News
02/08/2022 - Genaro Rincon Cruz Jr. is the the 2021-2022 recipient of the Kevin T. Early Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is made possible from an endowment by William and Donna Early in memory of their...
11/04/2021 - In March, the local Alpha Upsilon Pi chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society presented at the virtual Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. The theme for the convention was “...
10/06/2021 - Joanne Lee Molinaro, better known as the Korean Vegan has recently been featured in The Washington Post...
09/27/2021 - The Rhetoric Program is delighted to announce the Spring 2021 Student Essay Contest winners. With nearly 180 submissions, the Spring 2021 cycle saw the most submissions the program has had to date....
09/13/2021 - Michael VanCalbergh's poem,"My Father As Ulysses", was published in autofocus literary magazine on August 27, 2021. To read "My Father As Ulysses", see...
05/25/2021 - The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's Peer Essay Prizes for 2021...
04/29/2021 - Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood has been awarded a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship...
04/01/2021 - English PhD Student Laura Coby wins the HRI...
03/22/2021 - Dr. Kristi McDuffie, the Interim Director of Rhetoric, has won the ...
03/11/2021 - Professor Christopher Freeburg has been appointed as...
03/05/2021 - The department celebrates the achievements of six English faculty members and graduate students who have received fellowship awards from the...
03/04/2021 - Graduate alumnus Daniel Tracy (PhD, 2008) has produced a digital scholarly edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which is...
01/22/2021 - Graduate alumnus Keguro Macharia (PhD, 2008) has won the Alan Bray Memorial Prize given by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA for Frottage:...
06/16/2020 - The English department commemorates the loss and celebrates the lives and work of two of our beloved colleagues, Tony Kaufman and Jack Stillinger.