The English Department and Prof. Sharon Achinstein are proud to be hosting the Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity Conference. This is an all-day event taking place on Friday, November 9th, from 8:30am until 5pm. The morning session will take place within the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall and will include coffee. The […]

Professor Mary Favret has received a research fellowship awarded by UCLA’s Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. She will be spending two months this Fall at the William Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles to complete her research.

The Dean’s office has awarded its first-ever Dean’s Inter-disciplinary Project Grant to a seminar titled “The Sensorium of Reading,” organized by two English faculty, Professors Mary Favret and Chris Cannon, together with Professor Shane Butler of Classics. The seminar, which draws on scholars from KSAS, Peabody, the Libraries and the Med School, will run for […]