The Department is thrilled to announce that Professor Mark Christian Thompson has been named a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor. This major honor recognizes, among other achievements, his exceptional record of scholarship, which […]

The Department of English is proud to announce Professor Sharon Achinstein has been awarded the Selma V. Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of Ideas. JHI awards the Selma […]

The English Department is proud to announce graduate student Alexandra Lossada has been named one of this year’s Gender and Racial Justice Scholars.  The award is designed to support student […]

Associate Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson has been named to the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Each fellow receives $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that addresses important […]

The Department of English is proud to announce current graduate student Evan Loker has received an Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Graduate Research Fellowship for the Spring 2022 semester. This is […]

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the Board of Trustees has approved the President’s recommendation, at the behest of Chris Celenza, that Chris Nealon be named the John Dewey […]

The Community College of Baltimore County has named Jarvis Young as one of their speakers for their ongoing Humanities For All Lecture Series. Each semester, the Mellon Scholars Lectures Series […]

The English Department mourns the passing of J. Hillis Miller, Jr., a major literary critic and theorist who taught at Johns Hopkins from 1953 to 1972, and served as senior member […]