The Department of English is proud to announce Atesede Makonnen has been awarded the American Trust for the British Library Fellowship at Houghton Library. The fellowship, funded by the ATBL […]

The Department of English is proud to announce Prof. Nadia’s recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been named this year’s Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize Winner. […]

We are proud to announce Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s most recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been shortlisted to receive the Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize. Each […]

Professor Nadia Nurhussein of the English Department has had her book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, selected as a finalist in this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award. This […]

The Department of English is delighted to announce that five English graduate students have been chosen to help inaugurate a pilot program of humanities courses this summer.  Sponsored by the […]

Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 […]

The Department of English is proud to announce effective July 1, 2020, Professor Mary Favret will be the vice dean for graduate education, and centers and programs in the Krieger […]